It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

There are things you stand up for because it’s right.