Resistance is the secret of joy!

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.