Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.