Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.