If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

May our words blaze the way to our future

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able to plan for that.

Do not expect good from another's death.

Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Knight saved it with his back arm

Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.