Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.
My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.
I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.
In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.
But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder.
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.
I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!
