Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.