I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

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

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

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