Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.