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"The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged."

"Bird asked what a paleontologist was and Mom said that if he took a complete, illustrated guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shred it into a hundred pieces, cast them into the wind from the muse..."

"If we connect with nature, we can reconstruct our soul, spirit and strength."

"We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed."

"War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward."

"True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty."

"Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct"

"It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own."

"One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crav..."

"Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearne..."