When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling.

I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

If you never get your heart broken, you'll never learn to love.

New York is a sucked orange.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.