You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.