People were being evicted because their rents were being raised from $50 to $90 a month. That was a lot of money then.

It's a birthday present to myself.

It was a successful beginning of a dialogue. It helped pull the community together.

The Labor Department was on them because they never hired a woman painter.

Steve's laugh was brittle. “Sarah, we all have our own wounds. We’re all broken in our own way. Mine might look different than yours, but they were deep enough to enlarge my heart.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.