… Change doesn’t happen overnight-it’s molded by people who don’t give up …and time becomes a forgotten detail. A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . . Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference? Awareness … Read more
Anytime you get men in glitter, it’s a flamboyant occasion! Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects – television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving – is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as … Read more
As an advocate for kids for over twenty years, I have watched things change since I was in school. Thankfully, this book made me face what I intuitively knew was real but pretended wasn’t: The youth of our culture have been deeply wounded by our collective neglect and adult-driven self-focus. Young people need adults to … Read more
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940’s that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn’t have any women in there. And I knew that wasn’t going to work. A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But … Read more
1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies. A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child. Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates. I’m against … Read more