In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

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

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.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.