Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.

If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert."