Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.

Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.