Society is held together by our need we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now