I thought I would use this space to let you hear quotes by some of the people who have influenced my life, my attitudes, and me as a whole.

"What we call human nature in actuality is human habit." - Jewel

"Live as if you'll die tomorrow, Dream as if you'll live forever!" - James Dean

"'Will you love me for the rest of my life?' 'No. I will love you for the rest of mine!'" - Phenomenon

"It's not what you say before we start to play, it's what you say after that makes me want to stay." - Janet Jackson

"I know where beauty lives. I've seen it once. I know the warm she gives. The light that you could never see, it shines inside, you can't take that from me." - Madonna

"I don't know how to do anything. I am trying to move mountains with words. But I am an ant. I scribble. I drool. I move like a worm whose world emcompassed a mile. How do I rise above? Where will this worm find wings? I look in the mirror and I see filth. Who is that? Where did The Angel go? Why is there dirt staring back at me? Why is the soil of incompetence beneath my nails? Why does doubt paint blue rings beneath my eyes and stain my skin? Why does my spine assume failure? Why do my lips flirt with the sky? Why do I try to lasso beauty with such a pitiful rope? Where is the hair of Rapunzel or Samson? Where is my sling? Where is my stone, my gun? Where is the weapon with which I may fight this apathy that feels like sleep in my limbs, that loosens my brother's smile, that kills my neighbor's daughter? This pen is scrawny and hardly seems able to ink out or erase this plague that infests my Generation. This Giant, This Ogre, This Beast, This Death that assumes a million faces, that borrows my own." - Jewel

"One body, respect it. One mind, feed it. One life, enjoy it." - Des'ree

"Why can't we learn to accept that we're different before it's too late." - Madonna

"It seems as though I've always been somebody outside looking in. Well here I am for all of them to bleed, but they can't take my heart from me. And they can't bring me to my knees. They'll never know the real me." - Mariah Carey

"Live well. Die young. Leave a great looking corpse!" - It's My Party

"Standing alone / Eager to just / Believe it's good enough to be what / You really are / But in your heart / Uncertainty forever lies / And you'll always be / Somewhere on the / Outside / Irreversibly / Falling in between / And it's hard / To be understood / As you are / Oh, and God knows / That you're standing on your own / Blind and unguided / Into a world divided / You're thrown / Where you're never quite the same / Although you try / To tell yourself / You really are / But in your heart / Uncertainty forever lies / And you'll always be / Somewhere on the Outside." - Mariah Carey

EVERYTHING on Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope

"You don't have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory." - Janet Jackson

The movies Romeo+Juliet and Titanic!!

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