Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier.

It's not as bad as it sounds.

I have my own personal opinions, but they're just that.

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.