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.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

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

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

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

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.

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