Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

A woman is a woman!

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

When I came out of school I didn't even think that modeling was a job.

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time.

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.