Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.