Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.