I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

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.

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.

Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.

Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.