Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy - Nikki Giovanni

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened…

may i spin a poem around you
come let's step into my web
and dream of freedom together

You have to read the poem and say, “My god, that’s a good poem,” and kind of smile at yourself. If you’re not willing to do that, then you’re wasting your time, and you’re hurting yourself in another way because you’re trying to please somebody who doesn’t like you. You don’t want to get in that position.