I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.

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 top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.

When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

Everything that is seen and everything that is unseen is God.

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an impact on us.