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.

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.

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

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.

To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.