“ Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,’ you have denied America with that word. Stephen Vincent Benet
“ Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself. Kamand Kojouri
“ Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now? Kamand Kojouri
“ People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our li… Ashly Lorenzana
“ The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else. Ashly Lorenzana
“ We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here! Jasleen Kaur Gumber
“ Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change. DaShanne Stokes
“ Not a believer in the mosque am I,Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.I am not the pure amongst the impure,I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in the holy books am I,Nor d… Bulleh Shah