Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

Express your love like a flower

A moment later I am moving through space. Spinning. Twirling. Dancing.In the light.

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

People say they throwing a bboy jam but it is really a bboy competition, there's a difference! Call it the correct thing, please!

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?