We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

I'm too mature to be angry.

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.