I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

Who I am really keeps surprising me.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.