mengapakah ibadah yang dilakukan seringkali bersifat egosentrik dan pentingkan diri sendiri? Sedarkah kita wahai Mahasiswa? Kita mahu ke syurga tetapi seorang diri. Hairan. Bukankah sepatutnya kesolehan ritual melahirkan kesolehan sosial?

When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.