On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.
Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.
As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.
I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality. . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
I would rather, fight fabricated stories, even though most people say you shouldn't do that. But if you fight it, at least you're telling the truth. At least the word is out that, you know, you're innocent of these charges or stating you're innocent.
You've been checking me out, haven't you? In between your flaming insults? I feel like man candy.
It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.
I am prepared to try anything once.