I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That’s God. Everything is God. I’m a child of that.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.
What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they’ll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.
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.