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Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated. ”
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. ”
I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur. ”
Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing. ”
It's not just the light weights that give a long toned look with the Tracy Anderson Method, it's using the body in different rotations while contracting and releasing the muscle, causing it to stretch and lengthen. ”
I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different. ”
I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America. ”
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. ”
Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender. ”
I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person. ”