Kiese Laymon quote ✍️

The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane — John Coltrane that is — he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hea…

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed

Do not believe that you alone can be right. The man who thinks that, The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul — A man like …