Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.