All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts.

To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

I really do not understand the members of my generation.