Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.