Maya Angelou on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show had some simplistic, yet bold, words to say about making a change on the world. About the delicate dance between ambition, anger, and hope.

"Love and fear don't go very well together. Fear tends to take over. Love, if you give it a chance, it will become dominant. That's one thing I know. Being passive is not a condition I know. There's nothing in the universe that is passive. Everything is moving. I think it is a good thing to be angry. I don't think it is a good thing to hold anger in. Because the minute you hold anger in, it becomes bitterness and bitterness is like cancer, it eats on the host. It can eat the host to death and do nothing to the object that made it angry. You understand?

...But I think the wise thing to do is to admit whatever has happened, has happened. Put that down. Now begin the business of seeing what you can do to rectify life and the ways of living."

In light of the terror happening in the Middle East, these ideas are ever more true.