I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

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.

I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.