The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.