“If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.”

“You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.”

“Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.”

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

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

“there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish.”

“We played this game from the west village to the upper east side til around midnight when the Chrysler building was far behind us and we weren’t sure if we were in love anymore.”

“I love you because Five floor walk up1 to the 2 to the EThree avenues”

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

“Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.”

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