What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

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

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

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

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.