Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

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.

When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure!

If you want something, go get it. Period.

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.

Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.