I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they're so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn't make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.