I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for my sins. I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these Devils out my life. Lord forgive him, He got them dark forces in. connected to the high power. 666. I can introduce you to evil.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.