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

You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

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

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.