It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.