That which could hunger, could starve.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.