Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

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

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.

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.'