A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.

I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

Cute? I think my testosterone level just dropped - Ranger

Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.