To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Why Borrow What U Know Is Already Coming Your Way? ~ Eve's GrandMother

There is an end to every journey.Even life will come to an end one moment in time.

We carry our childhood with us.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

Servant of God well done.

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.