I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.