I'm home in New Orleans!

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.

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

The course you take determines your greatness or failure

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

I love crispy, cool sheets.

A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.