I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.