Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'

I try to be me to the utmost.

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."

Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized.

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.