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

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

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

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

The future is in good hands.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.