The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin. American writer and activist (1924–1987)
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.