Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.
I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.
what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.
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.