If You Don't Understand Yourself You Don't

Poetry Is The Most Informative Of All Of The Arts Because Everything Comes Down To Poetry. No Matter What It Is We Are Describing, Ultimately We Use Either A Metaphor; Or We Say "that's Poetry In Motion." You Drink A Glass Of Wine And Say, "that's Poetry In A Bottle." Everything Is Poetry, So I Think We Come Down To Emotional Information. And That's What Poetry Conveys.

If You're Creating A Slave Situation, You Would Almost Never Bring Women. And If We Look At Slavery For Example, We Look At The Greeks And The Romans, Right? It Was Always Men. They Never Brought Any Women. Because Women Carry The Seeds Of The Revolution, Right? And If You Have The Men By Themselves, Then You Can Do What The French Did With The Blackfeet, Which Is Breed Them Out.

The Poet Melvin B. Tolson Once Said "a Civilization Is Judged Only In Its Decline." That Made Sense To Me. I Would Imagine The Same Is True For Poets And Tennis Players.

We Are Strong Enough To Stand Tall Tearlessly, We Are Brave Enough To Bend To Cry, And We Are Sad Enough To Know That We Must Laugh Again.

I Used To Dream Militant Dreams Of Taking Over America To Show These Whitefolks How It Should Be Done I Used To Dream Radical Dreams Of Blowing Everyone Away With My Perceptive Powers Of Correct Analysis I Even Used To Think That I'd Be The One To Stop The Riot And Negotiate The Peace Then I Awoke & Dug That If I Dreamed Natural Dreams Of Being A Natural Woman Doing What A Woman Does When She's Natural I Would Have A Revolution.