“I am ripe. Ripe enough to hear your Truth. But shout it for one ear remains deaf.”
“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”
“One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.”
“So, another thing I had in common with Kathy - ripe mangoes were, truly, the best thing ever. Ripe mangoes, the dark yellow ones, would be my true love.”
“All the rest is silenceOn the other side of the wall;And the silence ripeness,And the ripeness all.”
“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren”