The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

A man should be what he seems.