Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.

If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.

Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.

When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the standards of decency, to begin to use language I would never use in front of my mother, all of a sudden, there's nothing between me and you, but worse than that, there's nothing between me and my worst self.

Religion is pointing toward the moon

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.