Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.

Excuse me if I feel skeptical, ' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue?

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.