We Are Better Than We Think And

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.

And Like An Unfaithful Mate, Once A Car Has Let You Down You Never Sort Of Trust It Again.

History Is Wonderful. We Have So Much We Can Learn If We Would Quit Making Ideology Out Of History, And Just Deal With What Happened.

Poetry Is The Most Mistaught Subject In Any School Because We Teach Poetry By Form And Not By Content.

Rage Is To Writers What Water Is To Fish.