“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”

“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.”

“Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept,...”

“I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Hom...”

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”