You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.