During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.