Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.
Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.
I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.
Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.
only through new words might new worlds be called into order
A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL
You have to be courageous to not spend money,. . . and we don't have many people who have that courage.
Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.