Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.
I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.
The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.
It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.
If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)
A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
I eat as often as I can. I'll eat even if I don't feel like eating.
If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.