“ A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watcha Christ go up in flames, smiling,as if he were a hookedfish, a felled antelope, some wild thing tied to boards and burned.His charred… Toi Derricotte
“ Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. Toi Derricotte