Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.