Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.
I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.
You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.
I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.
I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.
I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.
O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.