I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.

Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.

Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

Real education changes you on the inside.

We're told to plug our nosesto escape the smells. Manure.Rot.Poverty?Reality.

Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you thatmakes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold on to it with onehand, and use the other to claw your way back home.-Ripple

I believe the best way the Enemy gets to you is when you don't have a full understanding of how amazing, beautiful and valuable you are in Christ!

I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.