So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

It matters to me that I feel loved by the universe - and I do.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.