You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.