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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

We are each other’s magnitude and bond.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Look at what’s happening in this world. Every day there’s something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that’s going on, how could I stop?

What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

I’ve always thought of myself as a reporter.