At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.