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Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people.

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

A man is either free or he is not.

Let there be no love poems written
Until love can exist freely and
Cleanly.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

I am a soul in the world: in
the world of my soul the whirled
light from the day
the sacked land
of my father.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Hope is delicate suffering.

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

In America, black is a country.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

From the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

There is no depth to education without art.

The future is always here in the past

What will be / the sacred words?

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank ...

Hunting is not those heads on the wall

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

can't be rockefeller ... must be the devil

An evil word it is/ This Love,

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

What is lost because it is most precious
what is most precious because it is lost

You look like death eating a soda cracker.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

God is man idealized.