Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.

I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

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.

What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.