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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism o...more

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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a...more

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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.