It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.

Success need more than jumping, You must leap and hop

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

First know yourself, then know others.

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.