You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape.

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 mind is the master of the soul, and the soul is the master of your universe. Learn to master your mind.

If you want to foresee the behavior of someone, their personality is a better predictor than their intelligence.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.