In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did.

My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life.

It’s unfortunate really—how everyone can live on the same soil yet not even know the first thing about their neighbors.

Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

We are very keen to see that nobody gets ill-treated or abused.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.