Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

"Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.