We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

In a research-poor context, isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

If I notice a cute girl at the meet-and-greet, I might go and talk to her.

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.