Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were respected. Everybody listened to them. They may not have agreed - that's a whole different story - but they would totally listen and consider what the elder had to say.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.