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.'

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.

What I'm trying to do is to tell young people that I teach them how to breathe before I teach the haiku. That one breath, that one breath, because the haiku keeps you alive. It keeps you going. If you learn how to breath the haiku, you learn how to breathe. If you learn how to breathe, you're much healthier.

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.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

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.