Just like "All American" means "White," "All Lives" means "White.
My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.
The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission
She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.
In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.
Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.
The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. An...
An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.
Home is where you were conditioned.
It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.
Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.
Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.
Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works.
Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.
I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, pr...
There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.
America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.