"Respect me, or put me to death." - Malcolm X

"Life sucks..then you die." - My father

"With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet." - Attributed to George Carlin

"I don't mind straight people as long as they act gay in public." - Unknown

"I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other gods you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts

"I'm black, intelligent and beautiful." - Me

"We are society"

"I didn’t come from your rib, you came from my vagina!"

"Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one." - Kate Clinton

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.” - Zora Neale Hurston

“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.” - J.D. Salinger

“… My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe. I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“A bird may love a fish but where would they live?”

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.” - Sylvia Plath.

“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald "Show me a hero and i'll write you a tragedy" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Omission is betrayal."