They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

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.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

Life on earth is a transition.Death is final rest of every man.What legacy do you wish to live?

I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.