False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

It’s never too late to find that one person who can change you, for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

As it was, being a Zimbabwean immigrant was the worst thing a person could be in Southern Africa. They were the new Hebrews – homeless.

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.

I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.

I think I made his back feel better.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.