The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.
Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!
I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.
We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn into monsters.
What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?
When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.
The Dolls were the forefathers of glam. You never knew if they were going to kiss you or punch you. More than likely, they'd do both.
The Beatles were no trouble... lots of girls. The Stones were black-jacketed guys, a rough crowd. A whole different scene between the Stones' black leather jackets and the Beatles' pretty-dressed girls with the ribbons in their hair, teenagers standi...
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.
Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.
Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.
I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are.
