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.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.