“To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.”

“There becomes little doubt as to why power chooses to support power. Rwanda becomes invisible once again. We have nothing America wants.”

“Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.”

“What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?”

“words are much stronger than I am.”

“We mask our needs as the needs of others.”

“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words.”