Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups. Everywhere there are women who have gotten together to examine global warming, and women who have gotten together to prepare each other for single parenting - there are women who have come together to be supportive to those whose mates are in prison, male or female, partners are in prison. All sorts of gatherings of women. I mean, I'm just celebrating my 80th year on this planet, and I look back 50 years ago and there was nothing like that.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.