In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

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.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

What beauty could be your life’s mountain peak which you could climb all the way up?

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

Martha Stewart is getting out of prison so today the terror alert was raised from orange to pesto.

Time and space cannot play any part between two loving hearts.

Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.