Even If You Are Not Ready For

I Am An Ordinary Human Being Who Is Impelled To Write Poetry. ... I Still Do Feel That A Poet Has A Duty To Words, And That Words Can Do Wonderful Things, And It's Too Bad To Just Let Them Lie There Without Doing Anything With And For Them.

We Real Cool. We Left School. We Lurk Late. We Strike Straight. We Sing Sin. We Thin Gin. We Jazz June. We Die Soon.

I Know That The Black Emphasis Must Be Not Against White But For Black.

I Like The Concentration, The Crush; I Like Working With Language, As Others Like Working With Clay, Or Notes.

I've Always Thought Of Myself As A Reporter.