People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

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