I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they dont haunt you or handicap you or kill you.