But you have to sacrifice yourself for YOURSELF, too.

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.

Nothing carries more potential for change than individual acts of human kindness.

A good intention feeds no one.

Vampires moved with inhuman grace - the fae moved as if life were a dance, and only they knew the steps.

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

We make no apologies for setting high standards.

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.