The First Slave To Read And Write

I'm Looking Forward To The Time When We All Look Like Polynesians.

I Want To Be Black, To Know Black, To Luxuriate In Whatever I Might Be Calling Blackness At Any Particular Time, But To Do So In Order To Come Out On The Other Side, To Experience A Humanity That Is Neither Colorless Nor Reducible To Color.

So Many People Of Color Who Made Major Contributions To American History Have Been Trapped In The Purgatory Of History.

The Thing About Living In A Village At The Foot Of A Mountain Is That The World For You Becomes, Without Thinking About It, Self-contained. People Are Of Two Kinds, Really: From The Valley, And From Elsewhere.

Remember, I Have A Ph.d. In English Literature.