We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.