Belief is the death of intelligence.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

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.