The Poetry Is Myself.

Even If You Are Not Ready For Day It Cannot Always Be Night.

I Am An Ordinary Human Being Who Is Impelled To Write Poetry. ... I Still Do Feel That A Poet Has A Duty To Words, And That Words Can Do Wonderful Things, And It's Too Bad To Just Let Them Lie There Without Doing Anything With And For Them.

It Frightens Me To Realize That, If I Had Died Before The Age Of Fifty, I Would Have Died A 'negro' Fraction.

Already I Am No Longer Looked At With Lechery Or Love.

I Know That The Black Emphasis Must Be Not Against White But For Black.