The words loved me and I loved them in return.

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.

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.'

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.

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

Instead of running for President, why don’t you try walking on a treadmill?

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.