If you’re a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn’t.
If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you’ve already given him your love.
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, ‘Hey, I don’t like white people.’
If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
Violence is like money in the bank; it’s only helpful if you don’t have to use it.
Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
We obviously need the truth. We’re living in a country of lies.
You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don’t want to go naked, don’t want to go without guarantee. But that’s what’s got to happen. You go naked until you die.
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
Who I am really keeps surprising me.
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together.
Black love is black wealth.
I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.
I am so hip even my errors are correct.