I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

At little more than kin and less than kind.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.

Ain't no haters going to rob me of my joy.

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.

I want to see your tattoos." "You do, huh?