I knew the sky was black because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the air.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

"He hated me because of the problem that I had. He eventually left me and married another woman."

VOA: special.2010.08.09

"I feel pain in my heart. I cannot go back because of what they did to me.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

It's been very problematic for me because of work and family, and it's made loads of disruptions to our schedule."

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

"The RCMP appealed to me just because there are a wide variety of opportunities all across Canada."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

"So many of the things in this movie were art imitating life for me." "Because I had just gone through the pregnancy it was really fresh in my mind.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

When one imagines that a talent that great and a person with that much inner and outer beauty could have had obstacles simply because of the color of her skin, it makes me weep."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

"In this case we have a Pakistani group that in the past would have targeted Pakistanis or maybe Americans in Afghanistan and now because of its affiliation with al-Qaida says, let me target Americans in New York City."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"For me,I think it was more difficult because I dealt with the guilt of missing my child, having him so far away, then always trying to get home on the weekends to see him, as well as keeping up with school and remaining active,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

"To have us back away from those in order to get some kind of engagement seems to me, makes no sense because appeasement has never worked before and it seems to me to fly into that danger zone of appeasement, which is not wise policy,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28