Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

Any form of art is a form of power.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Always bet on the underdog. They've got ambition and nothing to lose.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

[Margaret Thatcher] is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in subsequent editions, I do not know.

We need women friends, women who challenge us.

Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

I just enjoy both working and not working.