"You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed."

智者从敌人身上学到的比愚者从朋友身上学到的更多。

People can't do something by themselves; they wanna tell you you can not do it.

I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation - and also what survives."

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.