We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving until it hurts.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.

If I die... I'd be so mad at myself that I didn't explore that side of me.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.