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

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

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.

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.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

An idea doesn't count if you can't use it

If ya' smell what The Rock is cookin'!

It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

I think I was born stubborn, that's all.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.