At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

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.

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

love make you happy, sad, cry, angry and addicted

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.

Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.

All I can think about is what she must be doing, and how I wish she were still here.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.