Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

I reserve my right to be complex.

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

Getting an education might be difficult, but it makes life easy. Being uneducated might be easy, but it makes life difficult.

Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

You better get it while you can

Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?