I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me..

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast..

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle..

I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born into, and shaped by, the ve….

Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum..

Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no o….

When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in large measur….

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know..