Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it’s pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me.
What you hope for, you also fear.
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don’t have to be what you’re not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can’t really have ecstasy as something other than yourself.