All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.