I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.

Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it's something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers' mothers. A nation's memory.

this place doesn't look like my America

That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.

...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.

I am careful not to look anyone in the face because I don't want them to see the shame in my eyes, and I also don't want to see the laughter in theirs.

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?""The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

The way to do is to be.

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.