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

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.

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.

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.

[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.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

We know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

You must never underestimate the power of your righteous influence.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.