The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

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

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

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.