My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

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.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.