There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!

I was aborted and did not die.

There's an image of Rapunzel free, flying in the air, as a sunburst, which says so much. This is a girl who has to get out and bless the world.

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??