A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.