Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.