"If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything."

-- Steve Earle

“Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.”
“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”

Source : Speech at the DOJ African-American History Month Program, delivered 18 February 2009
“Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.”
“We should use our imagination more than our memory.”
“I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.”
“My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.”
“There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.”
“Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.”

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