America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.

Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down.

Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.

In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.

The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

Knowledge doesn't exist in matters of the heart.

Simplicity simplified life!

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.