If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

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.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise.

When it comes to education all obstacles must be removed. This must become a priority for humanity.

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through.

It's time to believe in what you know.

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

Life is real, reality is not a dream. Those who chose to sleep...I wake em up, Cause you're sleepin with your mouth open hummin deez nuts.

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.