some favorite quotes:

"not all speed is movement."
~by toni cade bambara

"atkins is a racist diet! no rice? no noodles? [no curry potatoes?"]
~ by a VH1 comedian +

"teach my beloved children who have been enslaved to reach for the light continually...wisdom is the brave warrior/who will carry us into the sun..."
~ by sade, slave song

"God wants to manhandle us/ Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself/ and practice His dropkick/ the beloved sometimes wants/ to do us a great favor/ Hold us upside down/ And shake all the nonsense out..."
~ by hafiz, tired of speaking sweetly

"the essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds. he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life."
~Baha'u'llah, Sacred Witings