“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Quote

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.”

“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”

“What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.”

“I don't want to sound like a retrospective person stuck in the past, but the fact remains that, in my day, everything was in the hands of the driver - the gear changes, the delicate art of clutch control during race starts, managing engine revs during gear changes - everything.”

“Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.”

“Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.”