Life Is A Marvelous, Transitory Adventure.

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

Favorite Poems Are Like Favorite Children. We Definitely Have Them But We Never Tell As The Others Would Have Their Feelings Hurt.

We All Have Our Muses. My Grandmother And My Mother Are The People I Write For. I'll Never Have To Worry About Who Buys My Work, Or Who Likes It, And Who Doesn't. The People Who I Want To Be Proud Of Me Already Are.

Poems Don't Have To Rhyme... Poems Are About Beauty And Emotion; In Other Words Poems Are About Feelings.

Photographers Direct The Eye Toward A Particular Object. We Who Write, One Hopes, Are Directing The Heart And The Soul.