I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
I lost an arm on my last trip home.
Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.