Homie Quotes

“& how many times have you loved me without my asking? how often have i loved a thing because you loved it? including me”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“i want to say something without saying it
but there’s no time. i’m waiting for a few folks

i love dearly to die so i can be myself.
please don’t make me say who.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“I know something that doesn't die can't be beautiful”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“scooby doo was trying to tell us something when every time that monster mask got snatched off it was a greedy white dude.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“what animorph did you want to be? i wanted to be the boy who turned into the bird limp in the dog’s wet mouth, holding me toward his human saying, i made this for you.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“they murder us for the crime of their imaginations”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“I miss them. all the dead. how young. how silly/ to miss what you will become. I apologize.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“the b in debt is a silent black trapped”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“it doesn't feel good to know/ your need outweighed your fear.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“how often have i loved a thing because you loved it? including me”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“they know time. is not a river. not quite. like a lover. but a thing that leaves you. until it's gone.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“it's been awhile since. a body was inside my body. summer. & now I think how lonely. I am standing next to the oven for heat. so much depends on sex. once you have had it & had it well. only the little ruins follow.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“what advice do the drowned have for the burned? what gossip is there between the hanged & the buried?”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“i would love you even if you killed God”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“you made coming out coming in from the storm”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“rihanna is my president, walking out of global summits with wineglass in hand, our taxes returned in gold to dust our faces into coins”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“everything around you
is light & it’s gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you
& it’s so sad, you know? you’re the only warm thing for miles
the only thing that can’t shine.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“at least in this land where the trees always bear green.
i know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful.”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“what good is hiding the gun
& locking the cabinet if the boy

can still find his own hands?
if anything that loops can be a rope?”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“i am the prison that turns to rain in your hands”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“i too have been called boy & expected to come, heel”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands?”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“i counted the things used to end a boy but forgot the boy himself. how could i?”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“if i could be a tree, i'd know God is real”
― Danez Smith, Homie