I Do Not Understand Why Any Poet

We Black Women Are The Single Group In The West Intact. And Anybody Can See We're Pretty Shaky. We Are, However (all Praises), The Only Group That Derives Its Identity From Itself.

Poetry And Music Are Very Good Friends. Like Mommies And Daddies And Strawberries And Cream - They Go Together.

Fanatics Are, For One Thing, Boring And, For Another, Unreliable. They Tend To Burn Out Just When You Need Them.

Storytelling Is How History Is Passed. It's What Our Ancestors Did, It's What Everybody's Done. It Has To Come Back Into A Story Because Otherwise, It's Stuck In This Book And It's Boring And It's Academic And I'm Not Against Intelligence And I'm Not Against Education, I Don't Want To Be Misunderstood, But We Have Tell The Stories To Our Young People A Little Bit Early And History Gives Us A Lot Of Things.

Who I Am Really Keeps Surprising Me.