It Means To Educate Myself Incessantly About

We Need Everybody And All That We Are. We Need To Know And Make Known The Complete, Constantly Unfolding, Complicated Heritage That Is Our Black Experience. We Should Absolutely Resist The Superstar, One At A Time Mentality That Threatens The Varied And Resilient, Flexible Wealth Of Our Black Future.

The First Function Of Poetry Is To Tell The Truth, To Learn How To Do That, To Find Out What You Really Feel And What You Really Think

To Tell The Truth Is To Become Beautiful.

One Of The Reasons I Came To Berkeley Was Because I Saw So Many Students Of All Different Colors Speaking So Many Different Languages And Ferociously Presenting All These Different Views. I Thought, This Is The 21st Century And I Want To Be Here!

Bisexuality Means I Am Free And I Am As Likely To Want To Love A Woman As I Am Likely To Want To Love A Man, And What About That? Isn't That What Freedom Implies?