The Best Art Is Political

I Have Only To Break Into The Tightness Of A Strawberry, And I See Summer - Its Dust And Lowering Skies.

I Want To Feel What I Feel. What's Mine. Even If It's Not Happiness, Whatever That Means. Because You're All You've Got.

I Have The Wonderful Pleasure Of Finishing The Book And Closing It. And I Don't Read Them Later.

...black Women Write Differently From White Women. This Is The Most Marked Difference Of All Those Combinations Of Black And White, Male And Female. It's Not So Much That Women Write Differently From Men, But That Black Women Write Differently From White Women. Black Men Don't Write Very Differently From White Men.

We Die. That May Be The Meaning Of Life. But We Do Language. That May Be The Measure Of Our Lives.