Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

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

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

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

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

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.