A burnt finger remember the fire.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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