I Always Like Summer Best

Art Is Not For The Cultivated Taste. It Is To Cultivate Taste.

It's Not A Ladder We're Climbing, It's Literature We're Producing. . . . We Cannot Possibly Leave It To History As A Discipline Nor To Sociology Nor Science Nor Economics To Tell The Story Of Our People.

If Culture Was A Railroad, I Can See The Tracks Running From The Spirituals To The Hip Hop Nation.

I Want To Be Clear About This. If You Wrote From Experience, You'd Get Maybe One Book, Maybe Three Poems. Writers Write From Empathy.

Language Instruction Should Start In The First Grade. Writing, Also.