“Certainly the past doesn't exist anywhere outside our own heads. I have never touched, kicked, or felt the past.”

“that life deal with it,life must go on,if we dont then we find ourself in a black hole which we cant get out of....never ending depression”

“God never goes back; he always moves forward. ... God always wants our future to be bigger than our past, and God always moves forward.”

“Want to make it a date, haircut?' she asked. 'As soon as I can scrape together the cash for the train ticket?'What's with the "haircut," kiddo?' he asked. 'I thought we were past that.'We'll never be past that,' she said.”

“Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.”

“Since White America refuses to see its past, they can't really see me either. Add to that a little of Madame C.J.s magic and watch me go invisible. Watch me step outside of history. Assimilation as revolution. That's one thing that most of us know that white folks don't. Race doesn't really exist. Culture? Ethnicity? Sure. Class too. But race is just a bunch of rules meant to keep us on the bottom. Race is a strategy. The rest is just people acting playing roles.”

“Sometimes it is more comfortable to live in the past. It is where you have already been, what you already know. It is because the future is unknown that it scares us. But the future is here, and you cannot stop it. Embrace it because one day this future will be the past you may want to revisit.”