A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.
Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.
I don't want to get rich - just live good.
One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.
There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.