Education will open doors where none seem to exist.

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Settle down, Maverick, this isn’t the danger zone.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

I tend to put my foot in my mouth. I'm not good at being diplomatic. I tend to piss people off.

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely

I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again.