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.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

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.

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.