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

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

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

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and ….

Hope is delicate suffering..

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought peop….

What will be / the sacred words?.

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

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

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into aca….

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

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

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

An evil word it is/ This Love..

And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leav….

Back home the black women are all beautiful.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And le….

Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried pot….

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

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship.

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost.