"Softly the answer came; ‘forgiveness is mine to give, his reaction is irrelevant’."

"I knew the only way to get past what had happened so that it would no longer dictate my life was to forgive him."

"The missing step was embracing my anger in a healthy way."

"So please honour Jesse’s memory by consciously changing an angry thought into a loving one, to make this a better world."

"To borrow from Harold Kushner, forgiveness is first and foremost a way of seeing. It cannot change the facts about the world we live in but it can change the way we see those facts."

"The abuse remains embedded within my people. It is very difficult to step outside the historical trauma that perpetuates."

"That brand of forgiveness was for extremists who went on Oprah."

"It was such a healing poem all about the commonality of pain and it showed me my destiny."