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

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

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

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

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