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.

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.”

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.

Leadership is when you build the team, have the tools, teach the trade, use their skills to ready them for success.~Bluenscottish

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

I really don't care too much what the different later Christian traditions say. My aim is to be faithful to Scripture.

What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.