Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith…

No child should ever be too sad to play.

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…

Be careful how close you get to someone... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…

If God be for us who can be against us?

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

Remember we are all but travelers here.

The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.