There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.

I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.

I truly beleive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us.

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.