I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.