America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.

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.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

By making sad ones happy, we find our happiness!

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.

Commitment is freedom.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?