I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.

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

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.