Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will... - Walt Whitman

"Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.."

"We convince by our presence."

"This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me"

"Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…"

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."