About

I'm a person that likes to talk about anything. I also like to make people think critically about their beliefs. If you want me to be serious during a discussion, say so. Otherwise, I tend to joke around a lot.

Education

• Maple Woods Community College
• Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City
• North Kansas City High School

Favorite saying

• ""You know you have a great family when you can look up to your little brother." - My Sister Cassie "That tells me less than nothing! Do you understand? You made me forget things I didn't even KNOW!" "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate." * All hope abandon, ye who enter in. -Dante's Divine Comedy, Canto III, line 9. "Qui si convien lasciare ogne sospetto; / ogne viltà convien che qui sia morta." * Here one must leave behind all hesitation; / here every cowardice must meet its death. -Dante's Divine Comedy, Canto III, lines 14-15. "Caccianli i ciel per non esser men belli, / né lo profondo inferno li riceve, / ch'alcuna gloria i rei avrebber d'elli." * Heaven, to keep its beauty, / cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them / for fear the wicked there might glory over them. -Dante's Divine Comedy, Canto III, lines 40-42. "La dimanda onesta / si de' seguir con l'opera tacendo." * A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. -Dante's Divine Comedy, Canto XXIV, lines 77-78 "Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore" * But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail. -Virgil's Georgics. "Carpe diem quam minime credula postero." * Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. -Quintus Horatius Flaccus, or Horace, Odes 1.11. "Respice post te! Hominem te memento!" * Look behind you! Remember that you are but a man! -Tertullian in his Apologeticus noting the most likely origin of Memento Mori (Remember your mortality/you must die/you will die). "Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit." * There has been no great wisdom without an element of madness. "Love and let the world know, hate in silence." Egyptian Proverb. "A life with love is happy, a life for love is foolish." Chinese Proverb. "Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason." French Proverb. "A man in love mistakes a harelip for a dimple." Japanese Proverb. "Love is blind so you have to feel your way." Brazilian Proverb. "The greatest and rarest talent is to love everything good." Hebrew Proverb."