In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.