Life is better when we imagine it

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key

I will always wear this scar. It's called love.

I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.