We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America or Britain, or whether it's something happening out there in one of the countries of conflict. I mean Sri Lanka, the human rights abuse there is appalling.

Reconciliation is one of the hardest words. We almost forget, but there's always a little group that can't.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

It is important for women to do something about what they see.

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.