I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter ' or they may love 'The Hunger Games ' but after that they're going to love the act of reading and wonder 'What else can I read?'
Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read...
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of...
I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not...
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be...
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the...
For me forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people...
I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear...
When we drop fear we can draw nearer to people we can draw nearer to the...
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism in Islam - have talked about...
What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25...
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it...
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in...
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a...
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm...
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is...
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They...
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten...
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether...