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To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to ...
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.
Sid Hite makes the greatest books
When I'm writing, I'm flying high.
TOTALLY AMERICAN" personifies the dreams, inspiration, and ambition of the American people at a time we need it most. Reach deep in tribute to our ...
One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.
One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their "gospel" doesn't even need it!
Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of ...
We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.
Yeah, but I thought mushrooms were a kind of fungus!' Teddy says. 'You know, like mould. You can't get mould growing on mould, can you? ...
What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.
It was becoming very complicated because of all the modifications they were doing along the way and taking everyone double the work hours to get ...
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.
Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?'Answer not a fool ...
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
Throwing the football. But instead
She left my world spinninglike windmillson the plains of la Mancha.
Far from being incompatible, politics and Christianity are, in reality, inseparable. What don't mix are Christianity and social apathy. (p. 117)
Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not ...
Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world
Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into office, to get out of court, to get ...
We Americans are too often like children, steeped in moral tales that lack complexity and nuanced meaning.(from the foreword in The War I survived Was ...
Lass, lass! You are more desirable than any woman I have e'er known." He drew back to look at her. "E'er, I say, do you ...
A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder.
I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a manner that safeguards ...
I was a little ham and was a very open kid, probably because I was around adults all the time. That also forced me to ...
Laid out the quill, ink, sand, and paper.
Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the ...
...we are a narrative, storytelling species. Revealing our own histories, and understanding those of others can really help us appreciate the humanity in all of ...
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes ...
If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired ...
We need to give credence to the nonsexual relationships ... the idea of having significant others instead of a significant other.
The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.
This is not a choice. I either choose not to become a Hunter and get killed in some hideous manner or I choose to become ...
A good book is a book you want to read all in one day but to last forever
Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
The roots of Theodism are hard to trace. Leave it to say, it has roots in both Wicca and Germanic Heathenry. Garman began his path ...
Light mayonnaise is like masturbation - it approximates the real thing but leaves you unfulfilled,ultimately leading to fantasies about diving face-first into a big-ass jar ...
Design is a legacy of thought.
What's that?""It's a book.""What's that, then?""A non-volatile storage medium. It's very rare, you should have one.
Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.
They were Catholic, my lovers,All in an access of crossing themselves,Particularly their fingersBehind their suspendered backsAnd that was the women.
Nature is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to seeing ...
I'm overwhelmed by the thought of all the women who would pour out of me if I were cracked open: swarming like insects, bubbling up ...
Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.
Day by day we are summoned beyond a safe theological "knowledge of description" to one of unpredictable "acquaintance.
Carrie was a girl from my music appreciation class. She had beautiful, dark brown eyes, though it was hard to notice them; she hid behind ...
Sending parchment flying and forcing Augum
Continuing to hate someone was much easier than learning to like them for who they were, rather than who they used to be. I
Nixon finding areas of agreement with his Democratic adviser, as when Pat writes to him, "I do not know, but strongly suspect, that especially to ...