I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.

In the shimmering ignorance of illiteracy of compassion and faith the stoic desire of loving without temporal gains rules the hearts and minds in deeds and care

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

There's only room for one dominant female in the McMahon family... and that's me!

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.