Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.