I would never exchange my life with anybody else's..

What was going on inside of me became louder because everything around me became quieter..

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid..

I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with..

I Love, Therefore I Am.

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you..

It's terrifying to have a voice right now. It's so terrifying, and it's so essential..

I'd rather have happiness than money..

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing..

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..

You develop faith by doing things that require faith..

I fell in love with Africa while I was there..

We're living in a time where we all got to stay woke !.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.

One must as willingly be nothing, as something..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on..

However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse.

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry..

1999 was your last recorded output, and then Porter Ricks was put on hold until 2012..

If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well..