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.
The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.
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.
I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.
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...
Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.
Not everything set on fire will rise.
Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.
Your dreams are so far outside of your comfort zone, you've convinced yourself you don't dream at all.
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.
What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.
Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.
Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.
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...
I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.
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.
Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.
Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.