American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. - James Baldwin

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.