In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

I believe there's nothing I can't accomplish.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

I think I'm as content as one can be.

Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.