Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

Just as we are, we come to Christ Jesus, He will change us to his image.

You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

It's far too late for anything but magick, as the future is clearly up for grabs.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.