I Think We Have To

We Live In A Racist World. Everywhere There Is Racism. We Say To White People, "you Really Have To Examine How You Behave In The World. You Are Responsible For Deconstructing Internalized Racism And Being Part Of A Ongoing Process Of Decolonizing Yourself.

We Get Off Track. Capitalism Takes Us Off Track. You Get Off The "real" And Get On The "wheel." The "wheel" Becomes The Winning And Losing, The Succeeding And Failing, The "i Will Achieve." All That Stuff Becomes So Preoccupying, Particularly If You're Born With Low Self-esteem, Or No Sense Of Yourself, Or Even If You're Just Born In The Consumer Culture. It's Very Powerful.

The People Who Are On The Front Lines Every Day In Hospitals, Nurses, The People Who Are Running Clinics, The People Who Are Taking Care Of Your Children, Those Are The People Who Are The Lovers Of The World, Are The Good Of The World.

You Know I Think So Many Of Us Live Outside Our Bodies. My Dream Is That People Will Find A Way Back Home, Into Their Bodies, To Connect With The Earth, To Connect With Each Other, To Connect With The Poor, To Connect With The Broken, To Connect With The Needy, To Connect With People Calling Out All Around Us, To Connect With The Beauty, Poetry, The Wildness.

Women Not Only Get Violated, But Then We Take On The Struggle To End It Too... As A Man, How Could The Destruction Of Women Be Anything To You But Devastating? Think About The Fact That The Women Being Hurt Are Your Mothers, Daughters, Sisters.