You Must Be Unintimidated By Your Own

If You Are Sitting There Waiting For Someone To Tell You How Wonderful You Are, You'll Never Get Anything Done. Women Need To Get Over Being Women. I'm Tired Of That Socialization Of Women; That We Are Always Supposed To Be Sitting Around Pleasing Somebody.

I Think That Too Many Strangers Were In Her [nina Simone's] Life, And Not Enough People That She Knew And Loved.

Poetry Is Music Though, Unfortunately, Not All Music Is Poetry. Because Music Has Other Carriers To Take Its Message - Beats, Lyrics, Singers, Bass Players - Anyone In Music Can Rise To Make A Major Statement But In Poetry There Are Only Words To Do The Work. And They Do Sometimes Have To Sweat.

Visibility - You've Got To Find A Way To Make People Know You're There

Writers ... I Think ... Live On That Fine Line Between Insanity And Genius.