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

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

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

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.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.