All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.

You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

I won't sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I'm fresher than a stick of deo.

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.