the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

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.

You are not the one you see in themirror. You are the one who isshining in the eyes of others

Learning is a great experience of life”.

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

The press is dishonest, but the political press is especially dishonest.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.