“You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.”

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.

I’m not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That’s what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I’ve been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.

The ones that you’re calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse or hate negativity and bitterness that things aren’t better. I choose love positivity and gratitude that things aren’t worse.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.

We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.

If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

I don’t agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we’re going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I know what my identity is.

When you look at me, you can’t really tell what I am, but I’m black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.

I have black friends, but I don’t just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!