In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.