What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

The hands are churches that worship the world.

The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'