Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

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.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don’t believe that hard work is worth it.

For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all all honourable men.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.

Man's the bad child of the universe

They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.

An idea is a feat of association.