Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it’s not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But yourheart believes you can soar, glide and fly.

Falling in love is easy, letting that love go, is hard. But your heart will always have the right answer. You just have to listen to it and figure out what it’s telling you

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

You may not be able to find love, but if you give, you will get it back in return.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.

A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.