No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.
The sun and the moon shared the horizon in a distant friendship, each unfazed by the other.
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
You wanna fly, you got to give up the s*** that weighs you down.
When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
A woman could be cobra-thin and starving, but if she had grapefruit boobs and raccoon eyes, she was deliriously happy.