Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

It's always important to have the blessing.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?

I don't believe in dieting.