Watched Ntozake Shange on TV last night. She is wild! It was weird to watch her, but she is totally achieving freedom through weirdness. Little kid plastic barrettes on the end of her braids. Talking a mile a minute. Batting her eyes at Joe Papp. Just a complete wild thing! Something about what she read sounded like Howard University, 1966. I wrote the same kind of stuff. If I work hard, I can be better than that.