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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.