Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.

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.

Success is the prosperity of the soul

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.

The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'

A generation of children has been betrayed.