It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.

you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.