Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. the lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glance of the lover’s inward eyes.

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are