No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

I am luminous with age.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

They never die, who have the future in them.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

my feelings tend to last longerthan my lovers doand it's made a monsterout of my heart.

Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

I don't necessarily "deal" with the criticism of others. I used to, but now I'm so confident in my walk with Christ that it simply no longer impacts me. I can't allow it to. I'm on a mission!

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star.

On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?

Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.