Quotes from Essex Hemphill

Now We Think Now we think as we fuck this nut might kill us. There might be a pin-sized hole in the condom. A lethal leak. We stop kissing tall dark strangers, sucking mustaches, putting lips tongues everywhere. We return to pictures. Telephones. Toys. Recent lovers. Private lives. Now we think as we fuck this nut might kill. this kiss could turn to stone.

I'm dying twice as fast as any other American between eighteen and thirty-five This disturbs me, but I try not to show it in public.

I love myself enough to be who I am.