But now I've learned the importance of empowering myself. When it comes from within, it's a completely different kind of power. It is not a contingent or conditional power. It simply is a part who we are.

  - Anger's Fire - "Anyone can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way that is not within everyone's power. And it's not easy.

Figure out what it is that truly will make you happy from inside and stop chasing after reputation and status, which are as transitory as a media cycle, as impermanent as a snakeskin.

Resisting the Pull and Power of the Status Quo -   - The status quo is a force of power that keeps a society stuck. But, to best challenge the societal status quo, we must first challenge our own. - Why is it that as we grow up,

We did not come into this body to be quiet or safe. We did not choose to be alive in this time and place to be sidelined, victimized, or used. We did not choose to call this endangered planet home only to be ignorant, dismissive, complicit,