Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires...
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name.