How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

No, ” I said. “I can’t remember doing this.”“Oh, ” Rena made and gestured dramatically. “You don’t remember it. And that automatically means you didn’t do it?

You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own.

Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

It's really nice to have someone who's intelligent and articulate to talk to about what you're doing, because it's a big part of who we are.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

I enjoy playing it every time I step on the course.

I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.