borders are man-made they only divide us physically don't let them make us turn on each other - we are not enemies

why are you so unkind to me my body cries cause you don't look like them i tell her

a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility

i hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference yet i hear one insult and all confidence shatters - focusing on the negative

i reduced my body to aesthetics forgot the work it did to keep me alive with every beat and breath declared it a grand failure for not looking like theirs foolish enough to not realise i was already living in one

we have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view - live fully

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly - growth is a process

despite knowing they won't be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers

wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who've been unkind to you and keep moving forward - this will free you both

if i am the longest relationship of my life isn't it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person i lie in bed with each night - acceptance

never feel guilty for starting again

i will no longer compare my path to others - i refuse to do a disservice to my life

trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does - it is speaking to you

it is a trillion-dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already

their concept of beauty is manufactured i am not - human

how do i shake this envy when i see you doing well sister how do i love myself enough to know your accomplishments are not my failures - we are not each other's competition

we need more love not from men but from ourselves and each other - medicine

you are a mirror if you continue to starve yourself of love you'll only meet people who'll starve you too if you soak yourself in love the universe will hand you those who'll love you too - a simple math

what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn that since day one she's already had everything she needs within herself it's the world that convinced her she did not

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

My parents are very even-keeled. You know, just kind of steady as she goes.

Emptiness is not a great loss. It creates a great opportunity to fill yourself again and again with great love.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will.

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

Pregnancy is like the beginning of all things; wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

Happy is as happy does.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.

I confess freely to you I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.