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

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, 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.

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.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

If you do not enjoy a moment, you lose it forever. If you enjoy it, it is yours forever.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better.

Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.

Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.