... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

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

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

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

Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.

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.

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