This thing, reconciliation, isn't perfect, but we also must have hope. Without hope, there is nothing. So let's hope.

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.

Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around the globe going all over the place, and they have to integrate into a society, that society that exists has to integrate with them. Both sides have to work at it. It's not a one-way thing.

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

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

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

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