Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

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.

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.