the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real. - June Jordan

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here. We would not tolerate the language of the powerful and, thereby, lose all respect for words, per se. We would make our language lead us into the equality of power that a democratic state must represent.

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.