To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.