My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.