"Alden Albert Nowlan" was a critically acclaimed Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright

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Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

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I am not a doctrinaire of any kind. I'm still searching. Sometimes I call myself an anarchist, but I know that anarchism is not a final answer. Sometimes I lean toward Marx, but more often I lean toward Ghandi-Tolstoi-Thoreau.

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Being a foreigner is not a disease.

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I couldn't help being a part of my race. A race that continued to be tough. It was possible for me to accept myself, finally, only when I realized-emotionally-that poetry is tough too, that a poem can contain as much fury and power as a fist or a blackjack.

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