We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.

It's impossible for everybody to be in sync, even the most proper family.