You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.
I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.
If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.
I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?
Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.
When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.
