Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.