When Blackness Was A Virtue

I Think A Poet Is Anybody Who Wouldn't Call Himself A Poet.

Look, When I Started Out, Mainstream Culture Was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound Of Music. There Was No Fitting Into It Then And Of Course, There's No Fitting Into It Now.

Well, It's Hard To Stumble And Land In Some Muddy Lagoon When It's Nine Below Zero And Three O'clock In The Afternoon.

You Can't Imagine Parlor Ballads Drifting Out Of High-rise Multi-towered Buildings. That Kind Of Music Existed In A More Timeless State Of Life.

Passion Is A Young Man's Game. Young People Can Be Passionate. Older People Gotta Be More Wise.