We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

I think we're always in love. It's that simple. And it's important to remember that love doesn't have anything to do with sex. It's two different things. Being in love is the happy part. I was teasing my gentleman, "We know that you're in love when you cook for us." It's true. When men cook for you, they're in love.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.