So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times men would not stop to ask directions.

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so its not a lie.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.

You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.