I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.