Death Is A Slave's Freedom.

For Most Of My Life, I've Thought Of Myself As Pretty Cool.

Style Has A Profound Meaning To Black Americans. If We Can’t Drive, We Will Invent Walks And The World Will Envy The Dexterity Of Our Feet. If We Can’t Have Ham, We Will Boil Chitterlings; If We Are Given Rotten Peaches, We Will Make Cobblers; If Given Scraps, We Will Make Quilts; Take Away Our Drums, And We Will Clap Our Hands. We Prove The Human Spirit Will Prevail. We Will Take What We Have To Make What We Need. We Need Confidence In Our Knowledge Of Who We Are.

I’ve Not Learned The Acceptable Way Of Saying You Fascinate Me...i’ve Not Even Learned How To Say I Like You Without Frightening People Away-

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.

Poets Can Tell The Truth As They See It. It’s The Author’s Story, The Author’s Voice.