To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.