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I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

I do my best impression of a pen
and when every problem looks like a page
I commit ink to paper

We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.

It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams.

So men and women were born into workers
Because ideas like
Right and wrong
Get outweighed by need
Anytime you've got mouths to feed.

We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.

We used to stay inside for recess
because outside was worse

If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,

How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it?

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

Everything she meant to say was
you've given a worth and happiness to my life
that I had no right to believe could ever exist

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

Effort is the siamese twin of success

For me, poetry was ... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

A question like "do you love me?" was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

I make a good living doing what I do.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

I accept any challenge, so challenge me

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

That's what we were told - stand up for yourself. But that's hard to do if you don't know who you are.

Getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart

Please, sit in my sky and let me polish your shine.

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.