There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.