I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.