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.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.

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.

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

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.