“More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.”
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I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
