Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution… none other.
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is and always has been that the boys want to be something while the men want to do something.
First take the government of the Indians out of politics second let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third give the Indian the ballot.
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet but there will be one.
I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.
Most people get their politics obviously from TV shows about senators or movies about them or… all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests – 'lobbies' they call them in the States.
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling or about politics and idea is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.