There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they're so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn't make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children.

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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.