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.

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.

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

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

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

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

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.