I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.

There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.

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

I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.