Show Me Someone Not Full Of Herself

We Are Better Than We Think And Not Yet What We Want To Be.

Being Black And Poor Is, I Think, Radically Different From Being Anything Else And Poor. Poor, To Most Blacks, Is A State Of Mind. Those Who Accept It Are Poor; Those Who Struggle Are Middle Class.

Poetry Is Like Air. It's One Of The Necessary Things. Everyone Benefits From Poetry. And As You Know, Poetry Is International. There Are Only Two Things That Are Truly International, Poetry And Wine.

Rage Is To Writers What Water Is To Fish.

We [black People] Have Always Used Our Creativity To Battle And We're Not The Only Ones. Black Americans Are Certainly Leaders In That Simply Because We Were Denied Education And Dealt With Enforced Illiteracy. But People Seem To Always Forget That Literacy Is Not The Only Way Of Learning Things Or Conveying Knowledge.