“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait t...”

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

“This morning there s first a predictable story about Darfur; an expert on African affairs notes that seven thousand African Union troops patrolling a region the size of France have been ineffectual...”

“I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a vers...”

“I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbeli...”

“I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better friend to him. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

“The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.”

“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”

“So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.”

“Sometimes you got to lie on the outside to keep your voice loud on the inside. We dont owe the master the truth. He owes us. Nothing comes from the master. He is the thief in the night. He steals i...”