this place doesn't look like my America

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.

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.

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Like you begin your day with a cup of coffee or tea. Some begin their relationships with love and trust.It's not merely a choice - it's a habit and a lifestyle.

The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.

Everyone I love I pay.

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.

Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God's permission.

What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.