my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.