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

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

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.

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

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

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.