I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

School should be eleven months of the year.

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.

Death is a slave's freedom.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.