Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.