We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.