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We Need Everybody And All That We Are. We Need To Know And Make Known The Complete, Constantly Unfolding, Complicated Heritage That Is Our Black Experience. We Should Absolutely Resist The Superstar, One At A Time Mentality That Threatens The Varied And Resilient, Flexible Wealth Of Our Black Future.

What's Important About Poetry In The Context Of Leadership Is That Most Of The Time, Power Has To Do With Dominance. But Poetry Is Never About Dominance. Poetry Is Powerful But It Cannot Even Aspire To Dominate Anyone. It Means Making A Connection. That's What It Means.

Suicide Is Absolute, And If You Think You Will Survive By Hiding Who You Really Are, You Are Sadly Misled: There Is No Such Thing As Partial Or Intermittent Suicide. You Can Only Survive If You - Who You Really Are - Do Survive.

The Thing About Genius Is It Will Never Yield To Circumstances. Genius Regards What's Given As The Beginning Of Its Need To Find Or Devise Something Else.

If Any Of Us Hopes To Survive, She Must Meet The Extremity Of The American Female Condition With Immediate And Political Response. The Thoroughly Destructive And Indefensible Subjugation Of The Majority Of Americans Cannot Continue Except At The Peril Of The Entire Body Politic.