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I Used To Dream Militant Dreams Of Taking Over America To Show These Whitefolks How It Should Be Done I Used To Dream Radical Dreams Of Blowing Everyone Away With My Perceptive Powers Of Correct Analysis I Even Used To Think That I'd Be The One To Stop The Riot And Negotiate The Peace Then I Awoke & Dug That If I Dreamed Natural Dreams Of Being A Natural Woman Doing What A Woman Does When She's Natural I Would Have A Revolution.

Poetry Is Like Air. It's One Of The Necessary Things. Everyone Benefits From Poetry. And As You Know, Poetry Is International. There Are Only Two Things That Are Truly International, Poetry And Wine.

[to Write Poems] I Think It's Important To Do Research, And Research Mostly Is Going To Come From Books, So All Of Your Reading Is Potentially Helpful To Your Poetry.

I Knew Stokely [carmichael] And Them, But When You Got To That, You Saw That Nina Simone Started To Take Up Their Burden. She Started To Preach For Them. She Was Taking On The Burden Of "i Want To Tell The People."

Facts Are Only Tools To Gain Control Over Yourself And Other People.