The Greatest Gift Is Not

My Mother - My Stepmother, Really, She Herself Have Been What They Call An Elocutionist. And She Was The One Who First Encouraged Me To Write Poetry, Because She Used To Read It To Us. And Then When I Began To Write When I Was Nine Years Old, My First Poem Was Published In The Amsterdam News. I Called It "the Graveyard."

Revolutionaries Don't Get Job Security. They Compete With Rats For Cheese And With Strays For Shelter--after The Big Bullets Make Feet Out Of Their Knees.

I Never Thought About Myself As An Activist When We Were Coming Along. I Wasn't A Joiner. You Know, I Love The People I Love. I Didn't Care Whether - They Could Be A Democrat, Republican, Communist, You Know, And Anything But A Racist.

Ok, Boss, I Don't Mind Shuffling, But I Won't Scratch My Head.

Paradise Is To Be The Ultimate Instrument, Fulfilling God's Desperate Intent That We Love Each Other.