My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Snowboarding allows you to create your own path, and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.

The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.

Success doesn’t happen by accident. You make it happen. But before you reach that road to victory, some things about yourself have to be changed.

We don't know what we can achieve because no instruction manual accompanies our birth

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Life has no friend.

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.