The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move.

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.

Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield

Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

Whether it is committed by a group operating within or without the law, terrorism is still terrorism.

I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.

Confine your kissing to the irresistible.

Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.