I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.
The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.
When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.
I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.
This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
Gramercy Riff: We got a report from the Bronx. Some small time clique ran into them... The Orphans. Masai: They're not in our network! Gramercy Riff: They rumble anyway. They got wasted.
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.
The wrong-headed fool who refuses counsel, will come to grief.
Surrender to your dreams and let them launch your tomorrow.
North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.
