Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

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.

Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

RETURN TO TENDEROur aging parents deserve the same loving care they gave us in infancyKamil Ali

It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.