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.

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

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

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

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 words loved me and I loved them in return.