Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

I am a farmer singing at the plow

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

An eye for an eye makes you feel happy inside...- unless you're the second eye

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Serrated, adj. And you said, "I'm not sure we can.

Hillary CLinton wants to expand illegal executive amnesty, which would be really - shred - it would shred our Constitution.

Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.

I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.