I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.