I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.