Being A Mom, It Feels Like I

I Think What Irks Me Is That I Feel Like Women Are Really Being Compartmentalized Physically, And It's Been Done So Much That Now We're Doing It To Ourselves. I Don't Like It.

I'd Been Told That When You First Put Your Feet On African Ground, You'll Be Hit By A Feeling Of Overwhelming Understanding, Like You've Returned Home And Suddenly Belong. Quite Frankly, I Didn't Feel That.

I Like To Be In The Now, Now. Sometimes Musicians Have To Wait For Me To Be Genuine With It. As An Actor, I Don't Have That Luxury. You Have To Make It Legit When They Say 'action.'

I Think The First Time I Really Heard Poetry Was In The Schoolyard. Just The Little Limericks That Kids Say When They're Jumping Rope And Playing Games. I Think That's The First Time I Heard Rhyming Words - I Don't Know If I'd Call That The Definitive Poetry, But That's When I Heard Rhyming Words Said And Not Necessarily Sung.

I've Been Reading Poetry Publicly For 20 Years, And This Is What You Do - You Express, You Sometimes Dig A Bit To Get A Conversation Started. That's The Point Of Poetry. You're Supposed To Go, 'hmmmm,' And 'woooh!'