Anger is a wasted emotion.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

Everyone is born with the same amount of love in their heart. Some will use it and fill life with joy. Some will lose it and wonder where the joy is.

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.