If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.
Hip-hop. . . has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
I'm a long way from being evicted [at the age of 14], but I'll never forget it. I'll never forget the feeling. I'll never forget my mom crying and I'll never forget the thought I had: 'Well the only thing I can do is just go build my body,' because the men who were successful that I knew of - Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis - they were men of action.
Some players when they become No. 1 they put too much pressure on themselves.
Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head.
I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction really is irreversible; species that go extinct are lost forever. This is not like Jurassic Park. We can't bring them back.