Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors

This country was founded with the understanding that we shall be allowed to hold slaves. It was a condition of the formation. That shall not change regardless of the rhetoric coming from the North.

if a make up, is a fake face, than why dress to impress?

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

I don't know any skinny people who bully fat people. I just know skinny people who use fat people for rides.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?