I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

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.

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

so many people would be afraid to look in the mirror if the saw their character and not their face…it would be like american horror story.

In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is.

Where no hope is left is left no fear.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.

The first thing I need to get sorted out before I can then move forward, before I can feel any confidence whatsoever, is the voice.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

All life depends on organic reactions. A favorite saying.

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.