Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Healthy life is a sacred being.

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.

With audacity one can undertake anything.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

If you want something you have to will it into experience

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.