My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

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

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.