These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

I am luminous with age.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.