I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

And every human being is precious.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.