War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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.

You dare travel on the own sacred road.

I am the dust and dirt from which this earth grows.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.