To Be In Love Is To Touch

I Believe We Should All Know Each Other, We Human Carriers Of So Many Pleasurable Differences. To Not Know Is To Doubt, To Shrink From, Sidestep Or Destroy.

Each Body Has Its Art.

Be Yourself. Don't Imitate Other Poets. You Are As Important As They Are.

It Frightens Me To Realize That, If I Had Died Before The Age Of Fifty, I Would Have Died A 'negro' Fraction.

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