Black Poetry Is Not For Black People...it

There Are Things You Stand Up For Because It’s Right.

We Are Better Than We Think And Not Yet What We Want To Be.

I Was Responding To One Thing For The Woman I Knew, And There's Another Thing For What Did She Give, Right. She [nina Simone] Was A Great Teacher.

The Catchword I Use With My Classes Is: The Authority Of The Writer Always Overcomes The Skepticism Of The Reader.

The Poet Can Only Write The Poems; It Takes The Reader To Complete The Meaning.