War is not a jobs program.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

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

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

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.