I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned.
I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.
I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?
happy is the nation without a history
There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.
How can you hide from what never goes away?
Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
A blanket could be used as a flag, for a sleepy nation.
The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.
