I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

Healing begins where the wound was made.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.