School should be eleven months of the year.

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Libraries...house our dreams.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Who I really am keeps surprising me.