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

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well.

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

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

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.

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