1990s, Vibe magazine interview (September 1996)
Source: Black Studies: Bringing Back The Person (1969), p. 46
Simmons at the Canadian-American Business Council luncheon. 2008-11-13 http://eaves.ca/2008/11/14/quote-of-the-day
“If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?”
[David, Horowitz, http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/1999/08/16/naacp/, Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do, Salon.com, August 16, 1999, 2007-02-17]
1990s
2015, State of the Union Address (January 2015)
“Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed.”
Middle Passage (lines 15-16), from Collected Poems (1985)
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 108
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part IV: Where do we go from here, p. 361.
On embodying every one of her characters in “Pulitzer Prize Winner Suzan-Lori Parks Questions ‘Woke-ness’ With Her Latest Off-Broadway Play” http://www.playbill.com/article/pulitzer-prize-winner-suzan-lori-parks-questions-woke-ness-with-her-latest-off-broadway-play in Playbill (2019 Mar 1)
“I am a man, a black man, an American.”
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Context: Despite some of the nonsense that has been said about me by those who should know better, and so much nonsense, or some of which subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge, despite this all, I am a man, a black man, an American. And my history is not unlike that of many blacks from the deep South. And in many ways it is not that much different from that of many other Americans.
