Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.

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

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

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.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

The words loved me and I loved them in return.