Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.