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

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

what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

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.

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.