Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

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.

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Needing nothing attracts everything.