Quotes by : Kiese Laymon

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness....

This writing thing, it ain’t like that hip hop shit, City. For li’l niggas like you,” he told me,....

Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that....

If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit....

They are not American super-women, but they are the best of Americans. They have remained responsible,....

The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced....

Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.

Mama's antidote to being born a black boy on parole in Central Mississippi is not for us to seek freedom,....

Obama will win. We will win. Then we will continue to lose. And the right questions will never be honestly....

But i am a black man whose black mama's body and spirit were terrorized by another black man's hands....