“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.”

“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.”