Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

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

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Black love is black wealth

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

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.