“I sat evaluating myself.I decided to lie down.”

“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.”

“There are two things I like stiff, and one of them's jelly.”

“They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well....but we knew better”

“The effort to separate ourselves whether by race, creed, color, religion, or status is as costly to the separator as to those who would be separated.”

“The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.”

“I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down.”