Classism And Greed Are Making Insignificant All

The Greatest Gift Is Not Being Afraid To Question.

My Dream Was I Was Going To Be An Actor. Racism Occurred To Me. It Dawned On Me That I Would Not Be An Actor. It Occurred To Me That I Was Not White. It Occurred To Me That Being What They Call Colored, Being A Negro, Was Some Kind Of A Disadvantage.

My Mother - My Stepmother, Really, She Herself Have Been What They Call An Elocutionist. And She Was The One Who First Encouraged Me To Write Poetry, Because She Used To Read It To Us. And Then When I Began To Write When I Was Nine Years Old, My First Poem Was Published In The Amsterdam News. I Called It "the Graveyard."

The Kind Of Beauty I Want Most Is The Hard-to-get Kind That Comes From Within - Strength, Courage, Dignity.

It Takes A Long Time To Really Be Married. One Marries Many Times At Many Levels Within That Marriage. If You Have More Marriages Than You Have Divorces Within The Marriage, You’re Lucky And You Stick It Out.