Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.