Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.

I am this space my body believes in.

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

I think of language as our first music.

I said that love heals from inside.

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

The day you start falling in love, with the wrecked homes and broken windows instead of running away from them. You will find a story that fills your soul, behind every burnt door.

If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out - change your shoes and start walking.

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, “Well, I am guilty.” It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.

Ethical hacking!! Is it not an oxymoron?

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

You're my special angel, sent from up above. The Lord smiled down on me, and sent an angel to love.

F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.