As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

By any means necessary, I am for Africa.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

What is your name?” I asked.“Thorn.”“Thorn?”“If you touch me, you bleed.

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and provokes.