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

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.

True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.

It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.

We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

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.