Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost...

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your...

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various...

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up...

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.