If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.
That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.
You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.
Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw the conclusion, 'Because I'm a miracle, I will never harm another person who's a miracle like me. ' In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.
Education is the thing. This black-white bit - I don't deal with people that way. I deal with it as if you are another individual. If you do something that perturbs me or aggravates me, I do not think you've done it because I'm black.
You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c. "
People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?
I managed because of my mother. I managed because I'm strong. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you just do. So many people have been abused, it's not rare, it's a very common human experience, and we survive. Also, my music plays a big role in my thriving. Having an outlet, it really makes a difference.
I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.
Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.