Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same