Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.
