Before we build anything on this earth we must heal ourselves from the root.

Guilt is a very self serving emotion.

Awareness is the key agent for change.

Racism and oppression are a white people problem.

When I was in the full chaos of my latent identity formation, I didn't recognize that my identities were actually not mutually exclusive.

I realized that the relationship between chaos theory schema theory is that the realization that each of my different selves that I had kind of compartmentalized, and all my experiences and the knowledge, when accessed, combined, made me actually a fuller, smarter person.

Be grateful for all the obstacles in your life. They have strengthened you as you continue with your journey.

Your future is created by what you do today not tomorrow.

The hardest part of being courageous is when to use it, you use your courage in your very difficult situation that's where it matters

I don't want to die knowing that this is how people will remember me as a negative person, no has anything nice to say.

As creatives and artists, it’s really important to think about how we can bring people in because everyone’s creative and everyone can understand art, but there’s a barrier in our society where people kind of shut off and are afraid.

That’s the great thing about surrealism—it appeals to everyone because we recognize something in it that we can feel comfortable thinking about. It’s sort of like a hook and it pulls us in.

We need to diversify and look at the problems of homelessness—not necessarily the symptoms of homelessness.

I needed to see the world through the eyes of the homeless people. I needed to see how things were working or were not working through that particular lens.

How can I help? How can I be a part of the solution, and not a part of the problem?

Have you ever wondered to yourself, 'I wonder what it's like to go viral?'

If we do not teach our children how to be decent human beings to one another, then tell me what the point of society is at all?

A promise can be a random act of kindness.

A promise can be a recognition of a simple fact.

It turns out, it doesn't matter the language you speak, or the color of your skin, how old you are, who you love, or how much money you make. We all understand the importance of a promise.

Imagine all the priorities and layers of your life your competencies your where you spend your energy and see if you can align them on a vertical axis so that they're balanced on both side

It's about the value that you bring in everything that you do when you enable yourself to bring all the layers of your priorities, energies, and competencies to whatever you do.

It's a fairly common problem that we don't feel able to be fully ourselves in our careers or if we have creative ambitions it is always a challenge to fuse your creative ambitions and goals with some kind of a career.

All I could ask myself was why? Why does this have to be so isolating? And why does it have to be so freaking hard?

Curiosity is more about helping you filling a patchwork of information about what you already know, it’s about pattern recognition, and connecting the dots between things. So when you’re trying to solve a problem, honing in on those little inklings where you have a hunch, and then building there and following the information, and asking questions that are actually building context around what you already know: that’s what curiosity is.