Those who deserve love the least need it the most.
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception. Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.
I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine This little light of mine, I'm feelin' let it shine I'm feelin' take y'all back to them better times I'm feelin' talk about my mama if y'all don't mind
To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.