When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

Nothing is determined by fate. We create our own fate.

In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Baby get ready, get set, please don't go.

I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

Yoga is a natural thing.

I did theatrical caricatures.

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.