A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.

As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

Hi, I'm Jeff Healy of the Jeff Healy band. Don't drink and drive. I don't... you're blind!

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child