I Lost An Arm On

Better To Stay Alive," I Said. "at Least While There's A Chance To Get Free." I Thought Of The Sleeping Pills In My Bag And Wondered Just How Great A Hypocrite I Was. It Was So Easy To Advise Other People To Live With Their Pain.

Humans Persecute Their Different Ones, Yet They Need Them To Give Themselves Definition And Status.

I'm A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black,...an Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

You Are Hierarchical. That's The Older And More Entrenched Characteristic. We Saw It In Your Closest Animal Relatives And In Your Most Distant Ones. It's A Terrestrial Characteristic. When Human Intelligence Served It Instead Of Guiding It, When Human Intelligence Did Not Even Acknowledge It As A Problem, But Took Pride In It Or Did Not Notice It At All... That Was Like Ignoring Cancer.

We Give Our Dead To The Orchards And The Groves. We Give Our Dead To Life.