Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't

People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists.

Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

- because just by hating it’s possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

I was a super tomboy growing up.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.

The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.