We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

I have no other religion than kindness.

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.