Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
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.