Of the many photographs I have of myself and famous people, there is one which I had framed and have never forgotten. It is of King and me at the hea… - Joan Baez

With the precision of a hummingbird's heart Was the lord of the monarch butterflies One-time ruler of the world of art

My personal life has also been complicated-and public-though I am beginning to find more of a sense of peace and self-acceptance than I ever thought possible. Once I wanted to be married and have heaps of kids scrambling around me, licking cake mix off eggbeaters and riding Saint Bernards through the kitchen while I cooked stew over an open fire. Alas, those images bore no relation to my areas of competence, and since my marriage to David Harris dissolved in January of 1974 I have lived mainly alone, with occasional romantic interludes, the best of which are magical and splendidly impractical.

Martin Luther King, Jr., more than any other public figure helped to solidify my ideas and inspired me to act upon them.