American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician, William Melvin Hicks, and his thoughts on:
Being Smart
Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.
Music
Music is a great energizer. It’s a language everybody knows.
Advocacy
If you’re so pro-life, do me a favour: don’t lock arms and block medical clinics. If you’re so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
Community
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Media
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
Inspiration
If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.
The next big thing
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
Clergy
Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to.
Enablement
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
Comedy
It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.
Smoking
I’m not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.
America
People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself.
Bliss
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Enlightenment
As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
