I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.