Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.