“ I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well! ”
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
~ Jay-Z
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.
