Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder

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.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba)

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.