"A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong ..."
- Criss Jami
"God dances with the outcast."
- Steven James
"I'm afraid of them and they don't like mebecause I'm afraid."
- Ray Bradbury
"I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid."
"Originals cost more than imitations."
- Suzy Kassem
"We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that..."
- N.K. Jemisin
"Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity, depends upon a feeling of connection with..."
- Judith Lewis Herman
"I'm a lion in a strange land."
"These days only a guerrilla or a box man would want to cover up his identity to the extent of refusing the convenience of instalment buying. But I am that box man. A representative of anti-instalmenti..."
- Kōbō Abe
"People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
- Donna Lynn Hope