I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.