But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.