No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

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