Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Go where there is silence and say something.

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track

The Gospel of glad tidings is the power of God.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.

Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

What's your vision of what you think should happen? How can you make it happen? Go stand in your power and walk with intention to make it so.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.