I’ve had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
The military is already sexually integrated.
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren’t willing to listen to another voice.
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.
I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn’t we go around fixing them?
You’re young. Maybe there’ll be time for a do-over if you don’t get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there’s no time for a do-over.
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
I’ve spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
I think that we’re foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
I’m a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
I’m actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
I’m not a victim – I never want to be perceived that way.
I’ve had experiences that, you know, really couldn’t be replaced.
My father had gone to Vietnam.
It’s more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.