The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

I think we're always in love. It's that simple. And it's important to remember that love doesn't have anything to do with sex. It's two different things. Being in love is the happy part. I was teasing my gentleman, "We know that you're in love when you cook for us." It's true. When men cook for you, they're in love.

Death is a slave's freedom.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.