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

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

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.