We Should Always Do Something That Makes

I Was Apprehensive. I Feared Every Time I Talked About Poetry, It Would Be Filtered Through The Lens Of Race, Sex, And Age.

The American Dream Is A Phrase We'll Have To Wrestle With All Of Our Lives. It Means A Lot Of Things To Different People. I Think We're Redefining It Now

Equality And Self-determination Should Never Be Divided In The Name Of Religious Or Ideological Fervor.

To Practice Your Scales, So To Speak, In Order Play The Symphony, Is What You Have To Do As A Young Poet.

I Grew Up In Ohio, Where Civil-rights Accomplishments Had Already Begun To Accelerate Before Martin Luther King Appeared. In Hindsight, We Know That Many People, Black And White, Were Instrumental In Changing The Jim Crow Status Quo On All Levels.