No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

He's the only person who's entered my world apart from me.

If government is to respect people's autonomy, or to treat them with dignity, it should not deprive them of freedom. It should treat them as adults, rather than children or infants.

And he calls it playing? Like, whatever happened to chess? Or cards? Or tag?

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.

Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.