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

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

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.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'