I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

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.

Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.

Dear God, save us from The Church!

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

There is great stuff waiting for you on the other side of fear.

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!

his get up and go had gone up and went

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.