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

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

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.

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

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

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.