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If Culture Was A Railroad, I Can See The Tracks Running From The Spirituals To The Hip Hop Nation.

And Sometimes I Sit Down At My Typewriter And I Think Not Of Someone Cause There Isn't Anyone To Think About And I Wonder Is It Worth It

I Prefer Her [nina Simone's] Jazz Period Much More So Than Her Folk Period.

If You're Creating A Slave Situation, You Would Almost Never Bring Women. And If We Look At Slavery For Example, We Look At The Greeks And The Romans, Right? It Was Always Men. They Never Brought Any Women. Because Women Carry The Seeds Of The Revolution, Right? And If You Have The Men By Themselves, Then You Can Do What The French Did With The Blackfeet, Which Is Breed Them Out.

I'm Glad I Understand That While Language Is A Gift, Listening Is A Responsibility. (u.s. Poet And Writer, 1943- )