If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

Attitude is that litmus test which differentiates a knower from a doer. Knowers have only the skills

The time when you wish if death was possible from a heartbreak

Make sure everyone who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

If it's a good audition, whether or not I think I'm going to get the part, I do always say yes to going.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

I'm not sure when or why the tabloid angle on me was decided that I am a cad. I would have much rather it had been that I am secretly a dentist or that I love soup.