The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!