Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.

Love is a practice. It’s up to you to choose it, prioritize it and commit to it.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I've always loved to look and seek, and explore and find out.

It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories.

The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.