It Is Brave To Be Involved

The Forties And Fifties Were Years Of High Poet-incense; The Language-flowers Were Thickly Sweet. Those Flowers Whined And Begged White Folks To Pick Them, To Find Them Lovable. Then The '60s: Independent Fire!

Reading Is Important - Read Between The Lines. Don't Swallow Everything.

With Melted Opals For My Milk, Pearl-leaf For My Cracker.

Very Early In Life I Became Fascinated With The Wonders Language Can Achieve. And I Began Playing With Words.

Live Not For Battles Won. Live Not For The-end-of-the-song. Live In The Along.