Some say, don't burn your bridges.I say, if necessary, let the kerosenekiss it on the lips,and watch itturn to ash.There's always more than one wayto cross the water.

When you choose to be a poet,you become a place that people walk throughand then leave when they are ready

Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone.

you wouldn't let me love both of usat the same time

If I could I would nail these hands to the edges of stars. I would sacrifice this body to the sky hoping to resurrect as someone spiteful enough to not care about you.

Remember we are never given anything that we can't handle. When the world crumbles around you, sometimes you gotta look at the wreckage and then build a new one out of all the pieces that are still here. Remember that you are still here. The human heart, it beats approximately 4,000 times per hour. And each pulsin' and each throbbin' and each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words "you are still alive.

When I callyou brother,it means you haveat least four fistsduring any fightyou can't walkyourself out of.

When you are the only black manin the whole neighborhood,your skin is that one friend whomeets everyone before you do.It wears a wife beaterand house shoes,it knocks over the neighbor's mailbox,it cusses in front of the kidsand plays the music too loud,but you actually don't doany of those things.It's 7 PM.It's Wednesdayand you are justwalking home.

In 1983, illusionist David Copperfieldmade the Statue of Liberty disappear.He placed a curtain in front of the monumentand when he pulled it down the 3,000-footstatue was no longer there.I think about how this magic trickhas become too familiar. Libertyjust vanishing without any explanations.