I Prefer To Explore The Most Intimate

If Only The Sun-drenched Celebrities Are Being Noticed And Worshiped, Then Our Children Are Going To Have A Tough Time Seeing The Value In The Shadows, Where The Thinkers, Probers And Scientists Are Keeping Society Together.

In Fact, Sometimes Traveling The World Is A Way Of Not Writing A Poem, But It's The Quality Of Experience. It's Being Able To Experience Something And When You Begin To Write About It Be Able To Apply The Tools That You Need For Writing.

There Are Times In Life When, Instead Of Complaining, You Do Something About Your Complaints.

As An African-american, As A Woman I Think That I've Been Sensitized To The Way In Which History Privileges The White Male And The Way In Which Certain Aspects Of History, The Things That We Are Taught In School, The Things That Are Handed Down Never, Never Entered The Picture Though They Might Have Been Very Important.

My Childhood Library Was Small Enough Not To Be Intimidating. And Yet I Felt The Whole World Was Contained In Those Two Rooms. I Could Walk Any Aisle And Smell Wisdom.