I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.