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They've been practicing racism so long, it's perfect.

The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.

Let's put god on the other side of the wall for a while. i don't need him watching us with those judging eyes.

Even the Us's are Them's.

You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.

I used to bookmark relationships, hoping to pick up where I left off when I returned.

Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

I hope god isn't always watching - there are a few things i want to surprise him with - you being one of them.

It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness

We're looking at the coming of spring like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting; Hopeful.

Some women remind you of a good book. Others remind you of a bad movie.

None of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

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

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

I never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

Our true selves have scared people away. So we sometimes give them someone else to love unconditionally before introducing them.

How long should two people wait for sex? Until there is no other option when looking at one another.

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

I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

Home is where you were conditioned.

Undeniable chemistry and horrific timing. They love each other.

Dear Police:
You can't protect me and be scared of me.

The price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it.

Not everything set on fire will rise.

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better.

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 have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.

The only thing they've ever wanted, every relationship, was someone i wasn't.

If you're not seeing God at the climax, it's not worth doing. Sex is the bridge that connects heaven and earth.

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission

What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.

You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.

Try evolving as much as you cry.

Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

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.

To Those Who Follow Me Around Whispering, "You're Just A Man" When I Feel Like God

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

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

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.

I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

Come. when i finish writing, let's take a drive up the PCH with a bottle of cheap wine and talk about these lives we built

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

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

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

I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.

I am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.

I'm crossing my fingers that we grow deaf together. I'm pleased just writing you.

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

If i'd die for you, i'm certainly living for you as i type this.

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

My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.

We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet.

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.

Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.

She's lazy, so i'm not sure when she had time to build that wall she has surrounding her.

Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.

As long as I don't give you a reason to love me, you shouldn't.

1. Feed off you.
2. Replenish you.
3. Repeat.

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.

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

Sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

I'm learning men cannot teach men to build their castles with bricks. time must do that.

If I could choose one place to be right now - fuck Copenhagen and Cuba. I'd be at right beside you, wherever you are, smiling.

Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.

My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight; me or god

Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock
them down.

We've learned to hold ourselves accountable in the end, but we still fail to ask for help in the middle.

The thing about dignity: it can be destroyed, but not taken unless it's given away. It can always be beautified.

Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

I don't believe the world will end, but i believe stones will wear away. so i don't care what you place on my tombstone.

I don't want to be tolerated. Either accept me or don't. Don't "tolerate" me.

My favorite hobby is cooking and eating. There is nothing i can do well if i have not eaten well.

Scar tissue is what remains when the wound heals. they never tell you that. reminders, they are. those sons of bitches.

I don't trust people without books or questions.

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

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

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.

The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.

Drugs are the gateway drug

We find our own truth serums. we confess willingly, but only if we are able to blame it on something or someone else.

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

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.

This letter isn't to mark any significant point in your life or mine. This letter is Just Because ... Just Because.

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.

Adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives.