Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a….

Her voice is thin and her moan is high, And her cackling laugh or her barking cold Bring terror to the young and old. O Molly, Molly, Molly Means Lea….

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom..

All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak.

Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch; Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch..

When and where will another come to take your holy place? Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?.

I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer….

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go..

... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fa….

Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other..

I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don't think ….

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean wor….

I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the phys….

A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life..

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories..

White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and gi….

Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face! Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age..

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me..

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't luc….

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the ….