#self-assurance

"If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong."

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me."

"But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope."

"She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world."

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."