I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

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.

At our best, we are all teachers

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.