Every Experience Shapes Your Writing, Being Stuck

I Find In My Poetry And Prose The Rhythms And Imagery Of The Best - I Mean, When I'm At My Best - Of The Good Southern Black Preachers. The Lyricism Of The Spirituals And The Directness Of Gospel Songs And The Mystery Of Blues Are In My Music Or In My Poetry And Prose, Or I Missed Everything.

Love Liberates. Love - Not Sentimentality, Not Mush - But True Love Gives You Enough Courage That You Can Say To Somebody, "don't Do That, Baby." And The Person Will Know You're Not Preaching But Teaching.

People Don't Always Remember What You Say Or Even What You Do, But They Always Remember How You Make Them Feel.

We Are Missing Michael. But We Do Know We Had Him, And We Are The World.

Effective Action Is Always Unjust.