War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. Love will overflow every sanctuary given it. Truth will grow where the fertilizer that nourishes it is also truth.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more i wonder, he say, the more i love.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
The world is changing, i said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation i have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.