I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'

I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.