All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

"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."

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.