Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.

A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.

Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.