I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

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

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.

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

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

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

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