I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

Suffering belongs to no language.

Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.

Make room for who you are by knowing who you’re not.

When we do the hard stuff for the first 20 years we will have an easier life for the 60, but if we take it easy for the first 20 then we will live a life of struggle later on.

You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.

I believe this is yours." I hand her the last dart in my hand. "And this is mine." I cup her face in my hands before she can think anything else, and I kiss her.

If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you