Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.

Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!

For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

The CEO of large multi-nationals like Hillary [Clinton]. They won't going to like me and Wall Street is going to like me even less.

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.

There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).