I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

Anything we love can be saved.

Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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?