You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.

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.

Good Evening to inline expectations have not materialized, I hope tomorrow you can be hugged with the smile that tick, under the morning light through the sweet lips.

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

A little rebellion is a good thing.