I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
Akri won't let me eat any of them nasty gods. What's the world coming to when a demon gots to beg for tidbits. . . not eve a finger sandwich or a single knuckle. Tragic. Terribly tragic.
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. . . . A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. . . . A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out.
I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.