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

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.