One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.