Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.