“I dont regret anything Ive ever done in life, any choice that Ive made. But Im consumed with regret for the things I didnt do, the choices I didnt make, the things I didnt say. We spend so much tim...”

“he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. Hes attracted to independent women. Hes like an exotic ...”

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you dont have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doin...”

“Relationships are built in the silences.”

“We are still living with the ideology of compromise, not with the ideology of recognition”

“The folks who hate the idea of women soldiers tell one set of lies, the people who like the notion of women at war tell a different set of lies. If you believe the one side, were nothing but a drag...”

“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challeng...”

“We all have the same root, and are connected...To tap into this connectedness we must go within.”

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”

“I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.”