Zanuta looked into the face of the faithful courier. "I have conquered the world, but I have never killed a man.

No queen has had to fight an insurrection in half a millennium. And she takes it personally. But it was her fate to be a good queen that followed four poor ones

I am ugly. I am black inside, rotting and putrid.

They soared past the dark shapes of animals, grazing in the fields."What are they?" she asked."Sheep, " Mason replied. "I once heard someone describe them as floating like clouds across the hills.

Is that cancer curable or just treatable.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.

I don't find myself sexy.

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.