For me beauty is waking up to a sunlit room and I feel rested and excited to start the day. Beauty is the Donny Hathaway song that makes me well up with tears 'cuz I am feeling him. Beauty is the little girl who tried to hold the door for me even though she could barely reach the bars. Beauty is the light in my eyes, the light in other people's eyes when they are truly inspired. Beauty is my art, my smile and my laughter.

Racism, sexism, elitism (all the isms) is not beautiful and the people that support these ways of thinking are not always beautiful. Violence is not beautiful.

I helped this elderly lady out at the post office the other day and she told me "You have a lovely smile" and I felt good not because I felt beautiful but because actions and my smile made her day and that, to me, is part of what beauty is: giving of ourselves to others.

"Trials and tribulations make you stronger live longer
You wanna reach the nation nigga start from your corner
Everything in life don't always happen like you plan it
Demand it, overstand it, then you handle it
Fuck wishing, you missing the ambition in your mission
Now you switching, why you quitting 'cuz it's heat in the kitchen?
--Big Boi

"Know thyself"

"Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you". So we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
-- Hebrews 13:5,6

"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"
--Morpheus in "The Matrix"

"It's our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"- Dumbledore to Harry Potter "Chamber of Secrets"

<--- Blame this lady for Nutty.