The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.