“it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.”

“That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.”

“Simply knowing you exist, ain't good enough for me”

“I’m never gonna waitthat extra twenty minutesto text you back,and I’m never gonna playhard to getwhen I know your lifehas been hard enough already.When we all know everyone’s lifehas been hard enough alreadyit’s hard to watchthe game we make of love,like everyone’s playing checkerswith their scars,saying checkmatewhenever they get outwithout a broken heart.Just to be clearI don’t want to get outwithout a broken heart.I intend to leave this lifeso shatteredthere’s gonna have to bea thousand separate heavensfor all of my flying parts.”

“Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.”

“The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.”