If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

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.

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions.