“For one who knows how to speak, it is like water pouring out of Eta [a device to draw water from a well]. For one who does not know, it is just the rope hanging down.”

“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”

“Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.”

“You are a man now, and to be un hombre, a man must not only know right from wrong, he must also know who he is and who he isn’t. Because if a man doesn’t know who he is and who he isn’t, then no matter how much he knows about right and wrong, he will always be like a fish out of water.”

“One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.”

“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”

“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”

“How does the water
Come down at Lodore?”

“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”

“In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell.”