We love because it’s the only true adventure.
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
Show me someone not full of herself and I’ll show you a hungry person.
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts...
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it.
The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
Hip-hop is a cultural expression – it’s embracing.
Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.
I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you’re in and take advantage of it.
If you’re a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn’t.