I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

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

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

A burnt finger remember the fire.