For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

I try to do as much as I can. I probably knew more about Earl Mills than anybody on earth besides people who actually knew him.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.