Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

Anybody, no matter who they were, could come right off the boat and get more rights and respect than amerikan-born Blacks.

Nobody is obliged to be genious but everybody is obliged to participate.

You can be anyone this time around.

for the bringer of meat is welcome at any fire.

This is a free world. Anybody is free to come on board. It is the people to decide

You may all go to pot.

There’s no bouncer, no gatekeeper, and no barrier to entering these scenes: You don’t have to be rich, you don’t have to be famous, and you don’t have to have a fancy résumé or a degree from an expensive school. Online, everyone — the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur — has the ability to contribute something.

[B]est of all, divers will tell you, "It's open to everyone."

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

Any sensible person right now would join an organisation.

Everything ought to be open, — but not indifferently to every man.

And all this vast articulated structure of a culture stood out in the open sun of day, accessible to anyone who wanted to join, who was willing and able to do the work; there were no secrets, there were no closed shops, and if every lab and every specialization had its politics, that was just politics; and in the end politics could not materially affect the structure itself, the mathematical edifice of their understanding of the phenomenal world.

everybody should be involved, not just the artists. Carpenters, teachers, everybody.