An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

I am luminous with age.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

They never die, who have the future in them.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Make every day count, because you're never promised a next day.

I tell you the truth, if you will leave your life based on the whims and caprices of men, you shall be like the corn in popcorn machine

Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other’s birthright – that of equality.

Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.