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.

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

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

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

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.