Words that do not create images should be discarded.

I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.