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

I’m homeless. I’ve taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It’s not where love is unconditional. When I look up...

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

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.

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.

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

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.

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don’t wanna care what they think about my...

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

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

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

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

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

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

They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I’ve always refused it. I hated the story. It made no sense, and then I developed...

Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.

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

They sit there shouting “Don’t do it.” Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to...

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

What if “redemption” means not only freeing yourself from what you’ve done, but also from what’s been done to you?

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.

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...

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

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

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

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

You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.

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

Try evolving as much as you cry.

what if the room gets cold?

the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I’ll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.

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

With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.

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

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...

Once a year I need to hear you tell me how proud you are of me for growing a little more.

My heart isn’t big enough to care for the oppressors.

You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.

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.

Drugs are the gateway drug

i’ve never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.

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

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

The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.

I’m not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her...

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

We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.