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

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

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

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

this is her body this is her blood

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.