I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.
America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.
Atheists are not Americans.
I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.
We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner. . . in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.
From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.
Now we can see a new world coming into view, a world where there is a very real prospect of a New World Order.
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat
The museum in D. C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that and brought into the mainstream. So the museums are like brothers, but different.
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!