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

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.

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

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.

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

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