The structure of LIFE I have described in BUILDINGS - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the HUMAN person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

I made a list of PEOPLE who NEEDED just a LITTLE bit of money. And when the list was COMPLETE, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

As a BLACK PERSON in AMERICA, I am twice as LIKELY as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my HEALTH. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

The United States Postal SERVICE has a problem. People aren't sending as much MAIL as they USED to. That MEANS less postage revenue and difficulty paying the BILLS.

I consider myself to have been the BRIDGE between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to OBSERVE birds was to SHOOT them and stuff them.

I THINK GENETIC RESEARCH is a FASCINATING and fertile AREA.

When I was in school I read a lot of comic BOOKS and pretend I was in them and kids WOULD tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people SAY that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

I SPENT some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; HOWEVER, I felt I wasn't GETTING ENOUGH time assisting.

Our DEMOCRACY is not SOMETHING to be taken for GRANTED. You have to FIGHT for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the LONG haul.