Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal. - Audre Lorde

There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.

To grow up metabolizing hatred like daily bread means that eventually every human interaction becomes tainted with the negative passion and intensity of its by-products — anger and cruelty.

It is not the destiny of Black america to repeat white america’s mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.