"I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too."

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

"I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious."

"Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it."

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

"I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there."

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

"A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes."