3 Quotes by Essex Hemphill

I love myself enough to be who I am.

I’m dying twice as fastas any other Americanbetween eighteen and thirty-fiveThis disturbs me,but I try not to show it in public.

Now We Think Now we thinkas we fuckthis nutmight kill us.There might bea pin-sized holein the condom.A lethal leak.We stop kissingtall dark strangers,sucking mustaches,putting lipstongueseverywhere.We return to pictures.Telephones.Toys. Recent lovers.Private lives.Now we thinkas we fuckthis nut might kill.this kiss could turnto stone.