Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.