A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence.

A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less.

We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?

In its proper role, a number counts the missing words.

Unwritten words grow out of silence.

Many writers were better before they became famous.

There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.

Names do not write poems nor do they create work.

Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.

What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?

A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.

Your goals and the tasks you choose to accomplish your goals either align with dream and core values or they don’t. It’s that simple.

I don't read fiction at all.

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

I never confused what I had with what I was.

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?