If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.