If you're calling for peace, I am not home.

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.

I am good enough, attractive enough, important enough just as I am. I do not have to fix, help, or caretake others to earn their love.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

I am still full of ambition.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

Only the fools are certain and assured.