In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.