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 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 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.

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

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

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

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