I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
I’m always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength – in search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
It’s better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That’s the trap.
Anything we love can be saved.
Healing begins where the wound was made.
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It’s about the intention of what you want it to do.
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory.
Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.