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Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

How to dance
in blood and
remain sane?

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

In order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

And I cried ... for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Art ... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

The first day i shot dope
was on a sunday.
i had just come
home from church
got mad at my mother
cuz she got mad at me. u dig?

3.
i have told
you my name
so there is
tomorrow.
4.
see me through
your own eyes
i am here.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

your hands
humming hurricanes
of beauty.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

It is midnight
no magical bewitching
hour for me

So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

Let me wear the day
Well so when it reaches you
You will enjoy it.

What i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood.