I Know That The Black Emphasis Must

Books Are Meat And Medicine And Flame And Flight And Flower Steel, Stitch, Cloud And Clout, And Drumbeats On The Air.

Live Not For Battles Won. Live Not For The-end-of-the-song. Live In The Along.

When White And Black Meet Today, Sometimes There Is A Ready Understanding That There Has Been An Encounter Between Two Human Beings. But Often There Is Only, Or Chiefly, An Awareness That Two Colors Are In The Room.

No Man Can Give Me Any Word But Wait.

I Am A Writer Perhaps Because I Am Not A Talker.