Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Authenticity and honestycan be awkward and uncomfortable.

To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?

The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

A good midfielder has eyes in the back of his head, that's the secret in a nutshell

The dream is short, repentance long.

Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.