We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it.

The eighth gift is Imagination. May it nourish your visions and dreams.

…the universe…sets out little signposts for us along the way, to confirm that we’re on the right path.” (p.XV)

Have faith in your abilities.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. We need to build a wall.

I had one family that used a lot of yelling and screaming, and that was very normal. Another side of my family, nobody would raise their voice at all.

Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.