Nikki Welch

“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere-be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― Betty Smith

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
― Grace Paley