You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.
1. Feed off you. 2. Replenish you. 3. Repeat.
I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.
When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.
I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care ab...
Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.
An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.
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 be.
Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.
I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.
Not everything set on fire will rise.
Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.
Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.
Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.
What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed
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.
It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness
Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths t...