In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.

I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.

I never say never, but I'm really enjoying the freedom I'm having right now.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.