Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!

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.

Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.

Hope is the light, which shows the way of life.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]

Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you've got the Ebola virus and you're about to sneeze.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.