21 Quotes by Saeed Jones

America was going to hate me for being black and gay, then I might as well make a weapon out of myself.

Just as some cultures have a hundred words for ‘snow,’ there should be a hundred words in our language for all the ways a black boy can lie awake at night.

I felt like I had made the mistake of asking a fortune-teller to look into my future, and now I was being punished for trying to look too far ahead.