It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

You write in order to change the world.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.