Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.