If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

Consume life before it spoils.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.