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“There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.”
Source : Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.43, Chelsea Green Publishing
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“You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon”
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“I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.”
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“I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.”
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“Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand.”
Source : "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.
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“I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.”
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“If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.”
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“My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.”