Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

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.

Everyone's colored, or you wouldn't be able to see them.

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Every day people say you got to move on with your life. You have to move on. And you just can't.

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.