A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
