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.

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

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.

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.

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