Institutionalized Rejection Of Difference Is An Absolute

What You Hear In My Voice Is Fury, Not Suffering. Anger, Not Moral Authority

Well, I Do Not Want To Be Tolerated, Nor Misnamed. I Want To Be Recognized.

... Poetry Is Not A Luxury. It Is A Vital Necessity Of Our Existence. It Forms The Quality Of The Light Within Which We Predicate Our Hopes And Dreams Toward Survival And Change, First Made Into Language, Then Into Idea, Then Into More Tangible Action. Poetry Is The Way We Help Give Name To The Nameless So It Can Be Thought. The Farthest Horizons Of Our Hopes And Fears Are Cobbled By Our Poems, Carved From The Rock Experiences Of Our Daily Lives.

Battling Racism And Battling Heterosexism And Battling Apartheid Share The Same Urgency Inside Me As Battling Cancer.

Say What You Have To Say Now! Don't Wait Until You're Sending Blips From The Other Side.