It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts.
Get addicted to peace, talk about it all day and may be all night. Drink it, live it and love it. It will change the world.
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I had problems or issues, maybe I wouldn't feel as comfortable talking about them in a group.
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.
But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.
As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.
When I was a kid, I'd read about celebrities who didn't want to talk to their fans after a show. I told myself, 'That's terrible, and I would never do that.'
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.
Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.
