Fear the known, not the unknown!

NOTHING CAN STOP YOU FROM ACHIEVING WHAT YOU WANT, BUT YOURSELF!

I fear the distortions occur because it's been 38 years [since King's death]. It's been a long time since the real, living Dr. King came into this room.

My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third grade. She came from Mexico City at the tail end of the Mexican Revolution and that kind of turmoil and chaos and frenzy and also excitement.

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.