With Melted Opals For My Milk, Pearl-leaf

My Last Defense / Is The Present Tense.

When White And Black Meet Today, Sometimes There Is A Ready Understanding That There Has Been An Encounter Between Two Human Beings. But Often There Is Only, Or Chiefly, An Awareness That Two Colors Are In The Room.

Beware The Easy Griefs / That Fool And Fuel Nothing.

People Are So In Need, In Need Of Help. People Want So Much That They Do Not Know.

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