I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

Time has passed through me and become a song.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.