“A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country's own fear.”

“Breathing is underrated.”

“You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.”

“Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.”

“What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?”

“A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country's own fear.”

“When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.”

“I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it.”

“Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.”

“Most people don't know that heartache smells like blueberries.”

“Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.”