She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

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

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

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

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

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.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.