“Sonnet of Fundamentals
Equality, harmony, diversity,
These are not something you believe.
Just like water, air and food,
These are not something you believe.
Fundamentals of human life,
Are beyond all pettiness of opinion.
Argumentation may have its place,
But we must distinguish facts from fiction.
Plenty are the minds so are the beliefs,
But beliefs mustn't undermine humanity.
All of us are dumb, some less some more,
So we must place people before rigidity.
No belief is ultimate, no opinion olympian.
Putting aside truth, let us first be human.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“I don't write to inspire you, I write to destroy you, because without the bravehearts to destroy themselves, there'll be no society.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
Source: MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
“If you can't prove your freedom in the nanosecond before you spilled rage out of your lips, you have proven your bondage.”
Source: Slow Brewing Tea
“Our sufficiency is of God.”
Source: Predestination of the Saints
“Better than self-help is unself-help.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Enough with the worship of chains! Now let your character reign.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“My ideas won't give you comfort, they won't make you feel good about yourself, they won't make you calm, they will only make you restless, they'll only make you sleepless – for the world, for the society, for humanity.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Heart Humanish (The Sonnet)
I am but a simple sufi,
What'll I do with applause!
If you want to give something,
Lend a corner in the heart of yours.
I am but a fumbling fakir,
What'll I do with all the gold!
Only with the touch of a kind heart,
We shall bring prosperity in our world.
I am but an ignorant dervish,
I don't know much ayat and psalm.
All I know is, love is the breath of life,
Without it, all progress is harm.
Rituals and intellect all will perish,
What will live on is the heart humanish.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Rhetoric often fails us on climate because the only factually appropriate language is of a kind we've been trained, by a bouyant culture of sunny-side-up optimism, to dismiss categorically as hyperbole. Here, the facts are hysterical, and the dimensions of the drama that will play out between those poles, incomprehensibly large. Large enough to enclose not just present day humanity but all of our possible futures as well.”
Source: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming