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

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.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

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

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.