A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.