The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.