It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Where's Izzy?" cried Alice. "I'm right here!" Izzy was heard, but there was no sight of her floating friend. "Izzy's invisible!" yelled Melanie."Invisible and flying!" Colleen added nervously.

Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it.... It is time to open this up to the public.

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

If you can't change the status quo, make the status quo, change.

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.