What I think about as I do my crunches....

We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

                          ~ James Baldwin

Ps: I highly recommend his  Odyssey The Invisible  Man... It is a master piece that sticks with me to this day.  Truly a work of art!