“Real love is gritty. It sweats and waits, it causes you to hold your tongue when you want to scream obscenities in anger, and it causes many men to accomplish extraordinary feats.”

“Now now Ellindt, you know I love it when you beg.” Chuckling silently, every jolt from my hold causes her hands pulsating pain, and I bend to speak intimately into her ear again, “But I love it more when you scream.”

“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. War and courage have accomplished more great things than love of the neighbor. Not your pity but your courage has so far saved the unfortunate.”

“When you love someone, that person holds the most incredible power over you because they have the ability to cause you the most pain.”

“If you love somebody; You better let it out; Don't hold it back; While you're trying to figure it out; Cause the only real pain a heart can ever know; Is the sorrow of regret; When you don't let your feelings show. So, did you say it, Did you mean it?”

“So many black men out here trying to be niggasKeeping it real to the point that they dying to be niggasWhen in actuality the fact is you ain't a nigga because you blackYou a nigger cause of how you actBut, you don't want me to tell you the truth, so I'mma lie to youMake it sound fly to you”