Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
My daddy didn't even sign my birth certificate. So I ain't never had his last name.
I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
In Alabama, when you come out of the hospital, they have to stamp your birth certificate with either Alabama or Auburn, or you don't leave.
I don't have a birth certificate.
Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.
While I have no desire to see Mr. Obama's birth certificate, I do want to see his college transcripts.
The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.
I should have been called Kelvin. That would have been a top name: Kelvin-Prince. That was a mistake on the birth certificate - no one knows that.
It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.
Since the issues surrounding President Obama's birth certificate began during his campaign in 2008, I have rejected the notion that he is anything other than American.
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.
