“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.”
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Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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