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.

The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

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

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.