Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.