You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?