We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.
A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.
Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.
Not a Harvard-type education,. . . Just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!
We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.
I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.
I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.
The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.
The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.
He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.