Nothing Has Gotten Me Out Of Philadelphia.

My Mother's A Genius. She Just Kept Feeding Me Art On Whatever We Had; Paper Plates, Silver Platter, Didn't Matter. You Know, She Just Kept Feeding It To Me. So We Went To See All Kinds Of Theater. We Would Go To The Art Museum Pretty Much Every Sunday, And I Would Watch Her. She Let Me Know That Art Was Supposed To Touch.

Don't Stop Dreaming Just Because You Had A Nightmare.

One Of The Things I Love About Africa Is The Amount Of Dignity And Respect And Humility You See All The Time. You Don't Realise How Often You're Disrespected Until You Are Surrounded By Respect.

When Jett Puts My Face In His Hands And Tells Me, 'mommy You're So Pretty' Or Smells Me, It's So Wonderful.

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!'