Quotes from Roger Bonair-Agard

And this is when I knew I was black for real. This is when I knew black was a city whose walls were constantly under siege....

The break is forever chipping away new labyrinths toward the place where the human soul goes to feed when nothing else will let it eat.

This is also what it means to live in a time of polio, to be buried unknown, but not less loved than the pope or the president. I want to tell my children this. We are all worried about not being good enough for love. Imagine all we have. Imagine all we love and live through. Imagine what a chance we have to endure the very worst that might come our way.