Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

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

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.