Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

The future gets no say in who we are.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them.

To be communal is to be something fallacious. It is to be something more or less than being, a subjugation or propagation of the self to exist within the external condition.

God will wait as long as it takes for us.

Pardon not wrath is God's best attribute.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

As you get older, you find that everything looks better more natural!

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.