“My goals for the next part of my life: Whatever I’m handed, I’m gonna make the most of it. If it’s good for me, I’m gonna take it.”

I just don’t care what people have to say. I keep pushing toward what I want. It’s just how I am. I don’t know where I got it from.

I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. ‘Cause I’m a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.

My favorite movie is ‘House of Wax.’

I’ve always been the popular one in my school, in my town. Everyone always knew who I was.

Someone who’s fake is someone who acts one way around their family and their close friends, but once they get out in the public, they’re this whole different person.

I don’t think I’m the ‘Oprah’ type.

I just wanna keep Yachty forever, just take him home with me.

I wasn’t stealing cars at like, six. But I’ve always been bad.

I can’t even go to the mall anymore. I have to bring 17 security guards… or it feels like it.

I bought a white Panamera – and then sold it because I had no use for it.

Cardi actually says stuff. Nicki just has attitude. So what. Big deal.

I’m just me, all the time. People think, ‘She must be an innocent little white girl when she’s not performing or making videos.’ But no, I’m me all year round, 24/7.

You cannot act a color. Do not tell me I’m acting black, because I’m not. I’m acting whatever you want to call it – urban. I don’t even have a name for it. I just call it ‘me.’

I was always the popular kid that everyone hated. There was no reason for anyone to hate me. I never really did anything wrong. They just didn’t like me, so I had to fight back all the time.

I’m not really a role model; just don’t do what I do.

I don’t have to put up a front to impress anyone.

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts, it’s just accepted. And in Western culture it’s just not.

Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on – and public acceptance of – the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn’t want to be an academic.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

I’ve always regretted that I’m made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.