Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.

Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.