I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.