He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.
New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn't even fluent in English.
I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.
Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.
The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.