I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.