Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.

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.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

When life gives you lemons ~ write about 'em!

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?