“In all your getting, get understanding.”

“Life...moves us through all the time changes. All kinds of changes. And we're made so that we roll and move with it. Sometimes somebody gets stuck in the present and the rolling stops—but the changing doesn't.”

“I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living”

“No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.”

“And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

“Thing about white people," Jeremiah's father tells him, "they know what everybody else is, but they don't know they're white" - "Maybe some know it" His father eyed him and smiled "When they walk into a party and everyone's black, they know it. Or when they get caught in Harlem after nightfall, they know it. But otherwise...”

“I have all this stuff—all these thoughts going on inside me and they all seem so—so dangerous." —Tyler”