"You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write."

“Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.”

Source : "The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray". Interview with Preston Sprinkle, www.patheos.com. January 11, 2016.

“Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'”

“The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.”

Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.65, World Wisdom, Inc

“I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.”

Source : Jean Shepherd (2010). “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash”, p.118, Broadway Books

“Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.”

“I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast.”

“Donald Trump has filed so many bankruptcies and busted so many companies that his children now have receding heir lines.”

“We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.”

Source : "Bush: U.S. won't abandon Iraqi people", www.cnn.com. September 23, 2004.