Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.

...khalepa ta kala...It means that that which is worth having--the good, fine, honorable, and noble things--are difficult to attain...It means something else as well...It means 'beauty is harsh'.

I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

Think higher, feel deeper.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

At last someone takes me seriously.

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

We have a person that wants to balance the budget by charging $1,000 to every family who spanks their child.