the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.