I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share
Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat. — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to. — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed. — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind.… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
