Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.

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.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

We attract what we are. We attract who we are.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

To me, wholeness is the key to aliveness. It is more than just physical vitality, it is radiance, coming from being at one with yourself and your experience. Life then flows through you.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.