“You have to start by believing in yourself.”

Hello new world, how’s it going? I’m here to wreck everything.

Plant trees you know you will never sit under the shade of.

Life is hard, should you be too?

That’s cool and all but also screw you.

“The most amazing thing isn’t that I’ve helped people or that I’ve saved lives, I hear that all the time. I still doubt that, but the most amazing thing is that you guys saved me.”

You do you, I’ll do me, and we won’t do each other. Probably.

Even people you hate deserve opinions. And sometimes they’re going to have better ideas than yours. Keep an open mind to everyone.

Never give up, no matter what may set you back, and know that at the end of the road, you’re going to have something that you can be proud of.

You’re not alone in anything that you’ve done.

All your life, you’ll meet people that only want to break you down. Forget them, stand strong with the people who build you up.

Sometimes, you just have to follow your own path.

It’s not like I’m trying not to be worse! I’m trying to be gooder!

Don’t go for the booty if it kills you.

What I do is temporary, but what I leave behind is forever.

Together, we make two halves of a whole idiot.

Tell the person next to you that they look nice today. If you are alone, tell yourself.

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

I feel very strongly that curves are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin.

One lady told me that before she saw ‘Sounder’ she didn’t believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.

But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.