A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a citywhose walls were constantly under siege....

Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.

...please don’t throw any more rocks at the barrier keeping the demonic hordes of the void from pouring over the world.

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself

Today in America we are no more "post-racial" than we are "post-partisan." We have a long way to go.

It sucks to think about, honestly, but when you really consider the resources that it takes to press vinyl records, or the amount of gas that it takes to tour, it's really quite scary.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.