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What we think we become.

He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

We are not only what we do; we are also what we have been.

We are always the same age inside.

I wouldn’t compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don’t feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people’s story. I don’t like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

It’s only through our connectedness to others that we can be who we are.

What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.