“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
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Alison McGhee
"A new report on American aid to Haiti in the wake of that country’s devastating earthquake finds most of the money went to U.S.-based operations."