First Fight. Then Fiddle.

When I Start Writing A Poem, I Don't Think About Models Or About What Anybody Else In The World Has Done.

I Know That The Black Emphasis Must Be Not Against White But For Black.

What I'm Fighting For Now In My Work... For An Expression Relevant To All Manner Of Blacks, Poems I Could Take Into A Tavern, Into The Street, Into The Halls Of A Housing Project.

We Don't Ask A Flower Any Special Reason For Its Existence. We Just Look At It And Are Able To Accept It As Being Something Different From Ourselves.

I Don't Like The Idea Of The Black Race Being Diluted Out Of Existence. I Like The Idea Of All Of Us Being Here.