Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.
My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
