“Then, as if in answer to a riddle posed years before, you will realize that this growth came from seeds you planted or watered or carried from place to place—and you’ll be rewarded in the way that we as communal beings need most: you’ll know you made a difference.” 

“people in the same room understand and empathize with each other in a way that isn’t possible on the page or screen.” 

“Suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we just came from a city airport named for Columbus, a terrible navigator who insisted to his dying day that he was in India—which is why people here are called Indians. As the Native women in Houston said, “It could have been worse—he could have thought he was in Turkey.” 

“punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.” 

“we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” 

“You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.” 

“As Dr. King once said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” 

“It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.” 

“Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.” 

“More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present.” 

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” 

“What we’re told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.” 

“We learn most where we know the least.” 

“Always look at what people do, not who they are.” 

“The root of oppression is the loss of memory.” 

“no one ever got radicalized by being grateful” 

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.” 

“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.” 

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.” 

“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” 

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.” 

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” 

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.” 

I love New Zealand and don't get to come there much. The south coast of Australia and New Zealand have a similar vibration, and a lot of the music comes from this kind of space.