I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

Lovers will always tell lies. You should know that, Rinaldi, anything to protect their beloved one.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

The true snob never rests there is always a higher goal to attain and there are by the same token always more and more people to look down upon.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury), they received a peek into their future.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.