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

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.

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

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.

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.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.