"I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also I was, …"

"The real struggle has been since Africans first set foot on the continent, an affirmation of the value of one’s self.…"

"You gotta write women like… they can’t express ideas and attitudes that women of the feminist movement in the sixties…"

"Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing."

"An interviewer once asked him whether he had any advice for young writers starting out. "No," he answered, "if a writ…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"