We Obviously Need The Truth. We're Living

Rage Is To Writers What Water Is To Fish.

If Everybody Became A Poet The World Would Be Much Better. We Would All Read To Each Other.

School Should Be Eleven Months Of The Year.

It's Not A Ladder We're Climbing, It's Literature We're Producing. . . . We Cannot Possibly Leave It To History As A Discipline Nor To Sociology Nor Science Nor Economics To Tell The Story Of Our People.

Black Love Is Black Wealth And They'll Probably Talk About My Hard Childhood And Never Understand That All The While I Was Quite Happy