I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

Most of what we see are white people.

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

I don't see race. I don't see color.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.

You will be more strong if you face your fears... so start by facing them!

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

Some of the signs [of anti-Semitism] you'll see are not put up by the people that love or like Donald Trump. They are put up by the other side.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.