Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.