We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

Aisha Tyler

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.

Alice Walker

Don't be consistent but be simple true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

Lesley Gore

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C.S. Lewis

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

Natalie du Toit

The law is sic a ass - a idiot.

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Criss Jami

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Napoleon Hill

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

People never cease to amaze me.

Tina Yothers