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• When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is…
• Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
• I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
• Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
• We are each other's magnitude and bond.
• When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
• 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…
• Poetry is life distilled.
• Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
• What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into…
• It is brave to be involved
• As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

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