"Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience."

-- Julian Huxley

“A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.”

Source : "Streets 2K5 international festival Of Street Art". p. 19, May 2005.
“The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.”
“I donâ€™t want friends to die...or fade away. I donâ€™t want battles where we have to lose in order to win.”
“Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.”
“Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.”
“I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.”

Source : "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.
“I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.”
“Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.”

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