poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception..

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflec….

I've aged, but grown up? No..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry..

All a poet can do today is warn..

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

A poet is a painter of the soul..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..