14 Quotes by Joe Okonkwo

There are other ways of being intimate besides sex.

Kindness and talent and love ain’t the same as strength.

You can only know you are cared about if you are told and shown.

He was handsome. For a white guy.

You could have love, or you could have pleasure, and rarely did the two commingle. Love was difficult. Pleasure was not.

It’s better to die with your worst enemy in the room than to die all alone, right?

Harlem had been hit by a hurricane: It was raining cats and jazz.

His lover. His muse. Admirer. Critic. His antagonist. His protector. Defender. His savior. His.

Strings were out. Jazz was in.