One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

I write with all my heart

To hear, one must be silent.