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

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

I'm not [a Buddhist]. The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. You become your own guide. The teachings can help you, but really, we're all here with the opportunity the reality of hereness. We all have that. I trust that...I'm just not interested in labels. I find all of them constrictive. They're hard to wear. And they're hard to wear because we're always - hopefully - growing.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.