My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.