To hope is to contradict the future.
I am proud to be Latino.
I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be.
So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous.
I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.
I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won it all for the state of Alabama.
A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while such correspondence is, probably, the most fundamental general feature of life on Earth.
Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.