I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some he...
I really believe that when we start talking ourselves back, we'll have more to offer the world." he [Woodenkinfe] said. "I don't want a gray world." "You mean taking back our cultures and where we come from." "Absolutely! You want to talk about the f...
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will...
The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth – that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans – is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It conde...
What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voice telling him to sail west. And because of it he had discovered the New World and changed human history... We would be hard put to defend the use of ...
Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it, exclaimed, 'The arrant feminist! She says that men are snobs!' The exclamation, to me so surprisin...
There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'
Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
