"My ideas fuck like rabbits."

"Tell me what you're looking for and i will become that for you. I can sacrifice my inner freedoms for you without looking twice at my old journals and solid promises I made to myself about such things. But you must be prepared to kill me when the smiles are no longer frequent. Do it while I sleep. While I hold your hand. Do it fast, baby. Do it fast."

"You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape."

"America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full."

"The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night."

"When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors."

"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."

"I love you because Five floor walk up1 to the 2 to the E. Three avenues."

"The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better."

"Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other."

"And you say Paris is gay, but it has its down times. You say go in the spring and not the summer, because watching the autumn creep through the Rive Gauche preparing for winter is hard."

"They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American."

"Not everything set on fire will rise."

"They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets."

"Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked."

"None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it."

"One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can't be."

"Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are."

"Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also."

"Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knockthem down."

"There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze."

"Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality."

"I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life."

"When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin."

"Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall."

"Children teach us how to chase without overrunning."

"The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do."

"Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go."

"What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway."Hell, let them sit whereever they want on the bus. Just don't sit with them. Let them into our schools, the teachers will still teach from a eurocentric curriculum anyway. Let them eat with us, they'll need the energy and strength to build our homes."Racism is a perfect system with an impenetrable barrier."

"The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same size as theirs would do nothing for our hunger. After all, they're pretty full and fat.They know we now require a much bigger plate than theirs to quiet the stomach rumblings.They see us and know what it looks like to be less powerful. They are fighting to never FEEL it."

"Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape."

"She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to."

"We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles."

"We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]."

"Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental."

"You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society."

"One day you will be the only one in the room not living."

"No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again."

"I didn't mean to snore in your ear, but I wanted to inhale all of what was wrapped up in the comforter with me."

"African-Amendment."

"She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds."

"The oppressor is never as free as they think they are."

"Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible."

"I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken."

"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 world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something."

"Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White."

"I couldn't love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more."

"The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow."

"Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant."