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.

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

The plan of God concerning you is that of peace

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

The phrase *You complete me* is nonsensical. A couple is a *we* … not a complete *me.*

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.