The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

This poet is a griot in search of a village.

When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace and beauty that you see in them.

All memory is fiction.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

My concern is always that I can do justice to what I see and hear.

Racist writing is a craft failure.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.

You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. Demi Lovato

Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap