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

what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.

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

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

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

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