Be an advocate for the people and causes important to you, using the most powerful tool only you have—your personal stories.

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

British people are surprised that I'm British!

Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.

Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.