When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.

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.

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

The War on Terror has been and continues to be, above all, a war on the most basic liberties and political safeguards that we're all taught are what distinguishes the US and keeps it free.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.