If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.

We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.

Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

Never ask anyone if you should do something, if ultimately you are afraid to do it. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.