I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

God can cure any illness.

There is a great deal to be saidFor being dead.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

As far as ideology or political beliefs are concerned, countries are very different.

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.