Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

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

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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