Poetry Is Music, And Nothing But Music.

When I Die, The Consciousness I Carry I Will To Black People. May They Pick Me Apart And Take The Useful Parts, The Sweet Meat Of My Feelings. And Leave The Bitter Bullshit Rotten White Parts Alone.

Who Has Ever Stopped To Think Of The Divinity Of Lamont Cranston?

I'd Say I'm A Revolutionary Optimist. I Believe That The Good Guys -the People- Are Going To Win.

I Guess I Was The Most Unbohemian Of All Bohemians. My Bohemianism Consisted Of Not Wanting To Get Involved With The Stupid Stuff That I Thought People Wanted You To Get Involved With - ... Namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, Mccarthyism And All Those Great Things.

Thought Is More Important Than Art....to Revere Art And Have No Understanding Of The Process That Forces It Into Existence, Is Finally Not Even To Understand What Art Is.