Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

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.

You do not belong to yourself, you belong to God

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

If you love what you do, it won't be work.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.