“I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”

“Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.”

“He waited, but nothing happened.
"Boom? Was something suppose to happen there?"”

“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.”

“They are a pretty amazing bunch… some people have been here for 18 hours, which is… unbelievable! I don't think I would ever wait 18 hours on something, not even an organ, that I needed. I don't think I would wait that long, I would be like, oh fine, never mind…”

“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.”

“Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.”

“Watching the white people eat would make my empty stomach churn and I would grow vaguely angry. Why could I not eat when I was hungry? Why did I always have to wait until others were through? I could not understand why some people had enough food and others did not.”