But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

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.

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

You've always done as you pleased, Princess. I can't change you, nor do I want to. You're strong, a fighter. And I've never wanted another woman as I want you.

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.