"I wanted to go to a Black college to allow the students to have the opportunity to get the kind of education that I h…"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"

"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the sto…"

"This is not a man who sits down to "write a poem"; rather, some burden of understanding and feeling, some need to kno…"

"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."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"