A reading/speech/lecture/gathering with Maya Angelou, Salem, MA, November 5, 2007.

"The power to look through complexion and see community is something we can all do."

"You can be anything every now and then...courageous, honest, true...but to do that day after day, that's the power of the rainbow in the clouds."

"I don't trust people who don't like themselves. It's like, 'I don't like myself, but I love you.' There's a saying in the black community, it goes, 'Don't accept a shirt offered to you by a naked man.'"

Here is an interesting juxtaposition between health admonitions, and support for large, natural people (women).

From the Boston Globe, on how to cut cancer (answer: being as thin as you healthily can):
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/11/01/report_ties_meat_body_fat_to_cancer/

From the New York Times, on Leonard Nimoy's efforts to photograph big, natural women and show their beauty in the context that we are used to seeing malnourished supermodels in. Additionally, there's an interesting blurb at the end about his Jewish roots in Boston:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/fashion/13nimoy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin