Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Educating the world's poorest girls can only be done with the firm commitment of many stakeholders - both domestic and international - to plan, fund, and build strong, sustainable, and equitable education systems.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.