Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

I don’t think I’ve said this on camera, (but Ricky Williams) is the largest part of why I chose to come play for UT

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

Do you like what you're doing/would you do it some more/or will you stop once and wonder what you're doing it for?

I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I resist indulging myself.