And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

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.

Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

It's all bullshit on Everest these days.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.