History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

My work is not about 'form follows function, ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. Some fear them, but they fear everyone.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.

From all kinds of flowers, Seek teachings everywhere, Like a deer that finds A quiet place to graze, Seek Seclusion to digest All you have gathered. . .

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.