“I like to quote the words of Kierkegaard, that 'life ia a poem that we are able to write ourselves; but a Christian lets God write his life's poem.”

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”

“We all have to do things we don’t want to, that’s just life”- Jennifer Berrysome”

“Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining the existence of something uncreated this poem our lives.”

“Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the slightest provocation we will put distance between ourselves and those we cannot or do not want to understand”