But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie'...
Why should the killers of the world be the future and not us?
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.
And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Netti...
The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Tashi knows she is learning a way of life she will never live.
If my mind is crowded with ideas or thoughts or plans or other people’s creations there is less room for my own.
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.
Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.
Some people think politeness is an invitation to invade.
Peace: the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.
Já é duro o bastante tentar levar a vida sem ser maluco.
It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could...