Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

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.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Don't let disappointments & mistakes of the past control and direct your future. Your source of direction and everything is in Christ Jesus

If we an become still and open-minded, we might all feel the unseen comforting hand on our shoulder letting us know we are not alone.

You can start chasing your dreams.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

Life is a journey, so go on your way. Be a messenger of peace.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.

God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.

The mind demands rules; the facts demand exceptions.