I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

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

No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach).

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

Don't forget to have fun. Be your weird original self. Laugh and live your art to the fullest. You don't owe society.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing," Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...

Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song

My clones better not wear invisible cloaks. How am I supposed to find myself as a person if I can’t even find my clones?

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.