"i did not design this game, i did not name the stakes; i just happen to like apples and i am not afraid of snakes."

"they were digging a new foundation in manhattan, and they discovered a slave cemetery there. may their souls rest easy now that lynching is frowned upon, and we've moved on to the electric chair."

"there is nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends."

"there are a thousand shades of white and a thousand shades of black but the same rule always appliess: smile pretty and watch your back."

"i am not an angry girl, but it seems like i've got everyone fooled. every time i say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear. imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they prefer you were dirty and smiling."

"'cause i have had something to prove as long as i've got something that needs improvement, and you know that every time i move i make a woman's move. and first you decide what you've got to do, and then you go out and do it. and maybe the most that we can do is just to see each other through it."

"hour follows hour like water in a river, and from one to the next we don't know what each hour will deliver. we just call it like we see it, call it out loud as we can, and then afterwards we call it all water over the dam."

"i just hope it was ok, i know it wasn't perfect. i just hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it."

"...maybe the moral high ground isn't as high as it seems..."

"too much is how i love you but too well is how i know you. i've got nothing to prove this time, just something to show you. i guess i just wanted you to see that it was all worth it to me."

"i search your profile for a translation, i study the conversation like a map. 'cause i know there is strength in the differencess between us and i know there is comfort where we overlap."

"it's a long, long road, it's a big, big world. we are wise, wise women, we are giggling girlss. we both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves."

"'cause when i look around, i think this, this is god enough. and i try to laugh at whatever life brings. when i look down, i just miss all the good stuff. when i look up, i just trip over things."

"i want to be more than a pretty girl."

"we've got egos like hairdos, they're different every day, depending on how we slept the night before, depending on the demons that are at our door."

"it ain't no hassle, no, it ain't no mess. right now it's the only power that i possess. businessmen got the money, they got the instruments of death. you know, i can make life, you know i can make breath."

"i'm not hurting anyone. no, i'm just telling my own truths. if there is something wrong, then maybe there's something wrong with you. what's the big deal? get over it. relax. just cause i do up in your face what other people do behind your back. why we all got to look, why we all gotta act the same? i say if you're born a lion don't bother trying to act tame."

"the one person who really knows me best says i'm like a cat. the kind of cat that you just can't pick up and throw into your lap. no, the kind that doesn't mind being held only when it's her idea. yeah the kind that feels what she decides to feel when she's good and ready to feel it."

"are you weary as water in a faucet left dripping with an incessant sadness like a sad record skipping and an ugly and ornery and shadowy dread lurking like a troll under the bridge between your heart and your head?"