and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

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.'

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.

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

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

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