We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.