I Am Working Never To Be Late

Revolution Always Unfolds Inside An Atmosphere Of Rising Expectations.

What's Important About Poetry In The Context Of Leadership Is That Most Of The Time, Power Has To Do With Dominance. But Poetry Is Never About Dominance. Poetry Is Powerful But It Cannot Even Aspire To Dominate Anyone. It Means Making A Connection. That's What It Means.

... The Histories Of Blacks And Jews In Bondage And Out Of Bondage, Have Been Blood Histories Pursued Through Our Kindred Searchings For Self-determination. Let This Blood Be A Stain Of Honor That We Share. Let Us Not Now Become Enemies To Ourselves And To Each Other.

In America, The Traditional Routes To Black Identity Have Hardly Been Normal. Suicide (disappearance By Imitation, Or Willed Extinction), Violence (hysterical Religiosity, Crime, Armed Revolt), And Exemplary Moral Courage; None Of These Is Normal.

As I Think About Anyone Or Anything -- Whether History Or Literature Or My Father Or Political Organizations Or A Poem Or A Film -- As I Seek To Evaluate The Potentiality, The Life-supportive Commitment And Possibilities Of Anyone Or Any Thing, The Decisive Question Is Always Where Is The Love?