We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.