Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
The unredacted text hides a black smudge mark.
And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
My mom loved the old black-and-white films.
I was a very picky eater.
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
Terrorism is not new to black people.
Color can do anything that black-and-white can.
I appreciate folks asking for my autograph.
Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help. Th...
One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgments men pass on each other. The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he...
Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much ...
Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes them go mad, cattle grow addicted to locoweed despite its awful side effects and eat it to the exclusion of anything else. It’s animal meth.
In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ul...
History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than ...
