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

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.