Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.

Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.