Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.

I am this space my body believes in.

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

I think of language as our first music.

I said that love heals from inside.

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

If you have no problems at your job you don't have a job you've got a hobby.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.