Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

Look for the beauty in things.