My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Gerard de Marigny

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Henry Twells

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Groucho Marx

To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Judd Rose

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

Garth Brooks

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Chely Wright

If a person a) is poorly, b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and c) gets better, no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.

Peter Medawar

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

Miranda Lambert

The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

Obie Trice

When twilight drops her curtain downAnd pins it with a starRemember that you have a friendThough she may wander far.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of th

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Booker T. Washington