"When you don't understand something, you label..." - Quote by Denzel Washington

“What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control”

“I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.”

“Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.”

“Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

“Why assume that to look is to see?”

“We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.”

“When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they're telling you the truth or not, there's several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.”

“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.”