I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaA fool:

The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

We do not see through our eyes alone.

I'm a very independent woman.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money