The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak.

I was always a performer, always on stage, but I also always believed I was going to go home, open a dance school, get married, and have what you would call a 'normal' life.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.