Life Is A Marvelous, Transitory

What's The Difference Between Dragging A Black Man Behind A Truck In Jasper, Texas, And Beating A White Boy To Death In Wyoming Because He's Gay?

I Had A Really Nice Childhood; I Had Great Parents. I Earned My Allowance By Washing Dishes, And In The Summer I Earned My Allowance By Working In Daddy's Garden.

I Do Not Understand Why Any Poet Or Writer Would Run For Office; That's A Different Sense Of Who You Are. I'm Just A Poet. I Am As Truthful As I Can Be. That Makes Me An Artist. I Heed The People; I Do Not Lead The People.

I Prefer Her [nina Simone's] Jazz Period Much More So Than Her Folk Period.

Who I Really Am Keeps Surprising Me.