11 Quotes by Danez Smith

...paradise is a world where everythingis a sanctuary & nothing is a gun...

history is what it is. it knows what it did.

desire was warm recentlyshot from inside a bodyinto a body, strangelittle birth, happy deathritual, sweet lordi've seen thy wrath& it taste like sugarlay thy merciful handaround my neck

the b in debt is a silent black trapped

think: once, a white girl was kidnapped & that's the Trojan War. later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. are we not worthy of a city of ash? of 1,000 ships launched because we are missed? i demand a war to bring the dead child back. i at least demand a song. a head.

i am equal parts sick of your go back to Africa & i just don't see race. neither did the poplar tree.

The dog upstairs won't shut up, but I can't hate him, he's up there alone all day, making noise must be the only way he knows he's not a ghost.

i've left in search of a new God. i do not trust the God you have given us. my grandmother's hallelujah is only outdone by the fear she nurses every time the blood-fat summer swallows another child who used to sing in the choir. take you God back. though his songs are beautiful, his miracles are inconsistent.

it's not a death sentence anymoreit's not death anymoreit's moreit's a sentence a sentence