In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.

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.

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.

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.

The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.