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

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.

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

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

Books are like bacon for the mind.

Isn't it weird that everything that's coming out of my mouth is going directly into the past?

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

Ah, does my princess now want what I offer?

At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.