Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

My Christmas wish: To feel your arms around me, to have your lips on mine, and to hold you close one more time, while there's time.

When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. “& I love Wordplay

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

Take No as a question.

Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

I start to crack at four hundred to one.