Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.