My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

Vulnerability is power.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.