The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

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.

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.

It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable

To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper, shut up.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness