"Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S."

“Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.”

Source : Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.17, Beacon Press

“The best things in life are free - and $19.95.”

“Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.”

“I'm never going to run this again.”

“I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.”

“Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.”

“In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.”