I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.
Being
I wasn’t afraid of being poor. I didn’t want to live in a big house. I’m the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
From racial profiling and being pulled over just for ‘driving while black’ to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children’s lives are not being valued.
Love is being stupid together.
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.