I am so hip even my errors are correct

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

I am so hip even my errors are correct

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.