I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

Our actions are highly magnetic to our thoughts.

(...)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take.

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

It ain't what you do it's how you do it.

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

My dad has always said to me, "where there is a will there is a way" and this is the type of dedication hockey has taught me. Being dedicated to this sport [hockey] has been my will to play.