July 18 Birthdays

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back, if you smile, it returns the greeting. William Makepeace Thackeray

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Yield was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

Science fiction is about worlds you dont know and worlds you can create, like in Avatar.

Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - thats hot.

Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I dont get upset, Im all right.

It is the ground, it's too far away.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

The first time you buy a house you think how pretty it is and sign the check. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

If you're doing the devil, look for the angel in him. If you're doing the angel, look for the devil in him.

It proves what they always say: give the public what they want and they'll come out for it.

When I say 'work' I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life.