The Nature Of Tragedy And Accident Is

I Am Ever Fascinated By The Human Experience And By, Actually, Human Beings.

Black Americans Should Be Given Credit For Finding Probably The Perfect Weapon; The Weapon Of The Song. And That Song Continues. Most Holocausts Don't, So They Have This Bitterness Left Over. The Phenomenon Of The World, As Far As Black Americans Are Considered, Is That We Are Not A Bitter People.

If Culture Was A Railroad, I Can See The Tracks Running From The Spirituals To The Hip Hop Nation.

I’m A Big Fan Of History—applying The Lessons As Well As The Joys And Sadness. If We Pay Attention, We Would See How We Affect Each Other. In Terms Of Time, We Are Not That Far From One Another. If We Were To Look Back A Century, It Would Seem Like A Long Time; But, If We Look At It By Decades Then It’s Only 10 Years, And By Generations It’s Only Five.

I Want To Be Clear About This. If You Wrote From Experience, You'd Get Maybe One Book, Maybe Three Poems. Writers Write From Empathy.