I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.