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

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

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

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.

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

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

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