I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have a detailed plan about how that money actually gets down to the ground fast.

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.

They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.

Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.

We are all qualified to fellowship with God no matter our situation or condition

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

Memories come to mind like excavated statuesthat have misplaced their heads.

Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life.

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

What we think, we become.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

The market is like the police: of course you need it, but if it becomes the central organizing principle of your culture then you're in deep trouble.

Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger