Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.