If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

School should be eleven months of the year.

We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

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.'

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.