I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

You cannot conquer the mind of a man, if you do not know his heart and you cannot win over his heart, if so you do not know his mind.

I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.