Quotes from Charlayne Hunter-Gault

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

I was so taken aback by the question that I had to think about my response for a minute. Had I heard what I thought I heard? ... Remembering Zora Neale Hurston's Janie, I felt something inside me fall off the shelf, and I had to go inside and look around to see what it was.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.