I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

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

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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

I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

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.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.