Quotes About Transformation

Places changing and people with them, dreams shifting ever further beyond reach.

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him...

nothing ever vanished, not totally. Instead, things altered shape, substance, meaning.

The city disappears street by street as you enter it.

Maxwell's equations didn't just change the world. They opened up a new one.

The ballet student would also leave with a new name. Henceforth she would be known as – Audrey Hepburn.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

No more small towns for me. I was going to the city to get my degree in pimping.

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all the time. And also, I want to make clear that my reason for starting these notes at a point of personal anguish and suffering is that these experiences marked the end of a corrupt pimp life and were the prelude to a still mauled, but constructive new life.

No longer a jewel thief; once again my mama's son.

And in those final years, when he was off doing shit on his own, Spike didn't stick to the rules. He started to think he was too smart. Too ingenious. He was definitely feeling himself. He even changed his name. When I met him, he was simply

other—just stop talking like you're leaving us." After getting that letter from my grandmother asking God to intercede and change my heart, I decided I'd start to go to this little church at Calipatria. They used to have coffee and donuts on Sunday, and I would sit there and pray

At Donovan, I joined Kairos, a prison-based ministry group, and attended church regularly. Kairos—that's Greek for "God's Time"—became an integral part of my life.

was eligible for a Level II yard, and they had to find a suitable place for me. Corcoran was the place that God intended for me, the place where I could fully embrace and manifest the change I needed to make.

L.A., and they changed my whole outlook on doing time. There was this one guy in particular; his name was Rafik. He'd known me since I was in high school. He'd been a hustler, a player, a stone-cold street dude just like me. But in prison he became a Muslim. I always saw him walking around with college books. I couldn't believe

how much he'd changed—his whole demeanor and mentality, outwardly and inwardly. He was clean-cut. Wearing glasses. Carrying himself with dignity, like a real man should.

May 1992, I made that bad decision to involve a group of people who wanted to use guns, because that was their method of robbery." I told the commissioners, "That was the manner of person I was back then. Today, twenty-one years later, that's not the same person you see sitting before you.

I was switching up my lyrical style, but I wasn't expecting the impact that one B side was going to have, that it would pretty much transform the hip-hop sound of the West Coast and give birth to an entire genre called gangsta rap.

Chaos is another name for opportunity

Abrir palabra por palabra el páramo, Abrirnos y mirar hacia la significante abertura, sufrir para labrar el sitio de la brasa, luego extinguirla y mitigar la queja del quemado.

There's nothing more satisfying than making someplace look like someplace else and nobody knows the difference.