Gardening is the best therapy in the world.
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.
In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.
When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.
I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.
"We can't name it, but we can sing along. " That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.
To see more is to become more.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.