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We Understand What The Difference Is Between What We Understand And What The Community Understands About What We're Doing Because They Have Supported Us Long Enough For Me To Stay Out Here, While Other People Who Are Doing Other Things Have Not. A Lot Of People Have Trouble Pinning Down What It Is We Do And How. But We Don't Have Any Trouble With That. As Long As That's Their Problem, It's Their Problem.

A Good Poet Feels What His Community Feels. Like If You Stub Your Toe, The Rest Of Your Body Hurts.

If You Aren't Having No Fun, Die, Because You're Running A Worthless Program, Far As I'm Concerned.

You See Martin Luther King Is Dead And Huey Newton Is Not. And Malcolm X Is Dead And Bobby Seale Is Not. And Vernon Jordan Was Shot. The Thing That Revolutionaries, Or Even People Who Want To Claim They're Revolutionaries, Often Forget Is That It Doesn't Make No Difference What Kind Of Wardrobe You Wear, And If You Speak Up About Black People Doing Better You Just Risked Your Life.

Every Once In A While, You Live Long Enough To Get The Respect That People Didn't Want To Give While You Were Trying To Become A Senior Citizen.