After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.