Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.

With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.

You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.

i don't believe the world will end, but i believe stones will wear away. so i don't care what you place on my tombstone.

Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.

I used to bookmark relationships, hoping to pick up where I left off when I returned.

You have to have a view of something,” she said. “Otherwise you’ll believe yourself to be a god, not knowing there are a million other things out there bigger than you.

come. when i finish writing, let's take a drive up the PCH with a bottle of cheap wine and talk about these lives we built

Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.

the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.