Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place.

What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

I remember where I come from. I just see myself as someone who gets up and does what she loves every day - I'm not better or worse than anybody.

I've always been curious in why different people believe the things they do and do the things they do - in the different ways that people live.

I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life

Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

I live for myself and answer to nobody

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.