My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry,….

We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and str….

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms..

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your e….

Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their k….

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head..

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get u….