Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.

All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have to shake those off. You have to become vulnerable.

When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

I dont wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.