What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.