Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Snowboarding allows you to create your own path, and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.

The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.

His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

You are not your thoughts, and you are not the product of your thoughts.

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.