Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

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

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