Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it's something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into.

I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers' mothers. A nation's memory.

this place doesn't look like my America

That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.

...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.

I am careful not to look anyone in the face because I don't want them to see the shame in my eyes, and I also don't want to see the laughter in theirs.

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

It is not beauty that makes you strong--it is adversity.

He walked to the bathroom and looked into the mirror, trying to see himself through her eyes. It was time to change his style, throw off the shroud of timidity and start living his life.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.