School Should Be Eleven Months Of The

God Knows It's A Sign Of A Really Sick Mind To See Grown People, Adults With Responsibilities, Wearing Class Rings.

A Lot Of People Refuse To Do Things Because They Don't Want To Go Naked, Don't Want To Go Without Guarantee. But That's What's Got To Happen. You Go Naked Until You Die.

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.

Schools Should Be Integrated By Race And By Class.

[to Write Poems] I Think It's Important To Do Research, And Research Mostly Is Going To Come From Books, So All Of Your Reading Is Potentially Helpful To Your Poetry.