“What makes the self?Experiences. Acculturation.What else?I don't know.What's within you.She says, I don't know what was within me and what got put there by my life as it was lived.You can never know that.No.But there is a you that was there before you were born and that nobody shaped or changed or could have changed.”

“Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.”

“I didn't think about how it might have changed me. But I watched my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don't you know better? Hearts are breakable and I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.”

“Keeping it real is a full time job. You can never back down on your true thoughts and feelings. Even if you change the way you think or feel at a later time you were and are still keeping it real. Everyone goes through changes within their minds, hearts and lives. I may say I had enough today goodbye, but tomorrow I may realize that you are someone I want to keep in my life so I will hit you up and let you know. It is not being a flip-flopper it is realizing what is truly within your heart. There are few that have the courage to be true to themselves and there are fewer that have the courage to be true to everyone else.”

“You may have to break this heart before you can use it. You may have to take it apart and start all over with me. I know it hurts to change, but I don't want to stay the same. Take me. Break me. Do whatever it takes to make me what you need me to be”

“So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.”