My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

O starry night, This is how I want to die

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.

Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

Write the poem only you can write.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.

I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.