I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

"Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

You've got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon' be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.