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your right standing with God and your connection to Him remains your strongest defense in the day of calamity.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.

In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

Remember, the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

I spend a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter writing all day long because I feel it's my job to entertain people.

Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagant spending of President Obama and the Democratic Party - absent any checks and balances - will eventually lead more people into government dependency, higher taxes, and, perhaps, our country's financial ruin.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.

Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind.