Body And Soul, Black America Reveals The

In The Process Of Telling The Truth About What You Feel Or What You See, Each Of Us Has To Get In Touch With Himself Or Herself In A Really Deep, Serious Way.

My Heart Is Not Peripheral To Me.

The Music Of Language Became Extremely Important To Me, And Obvious To Me. By The Time I Was Seven I Was Writing Myself. I Was A Poet

In The Name Of Motherhood And Fatherhood And Education And Good Manners, We Threaten And Suffocate And Bind And Ensnare And Bribe And Trick Children Into Wholesale Emulation Of Our Ways.

If We Lived In A Democratic State Our Language Would Have To Hurtle, Fly, Curse, And Sing, In All The Common American Names, All The Undeniable And Representative And Participating Voices Of Everybody Here.