Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated.

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face..

History is absolutely my thing..

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right..

When you are in love- everything is romantic.

Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May go….

People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane..

Keep it weird. They'll get it later..

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories..

Memory is a form of time travel. That's something we do during the course of the day, every single day. The idea of actually being able to physically….

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am..

You can't possibly be right for everything..

For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themse….

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of sto….

I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, burst….

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make..

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam..

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you..

That's the main thing you have to have... trust..

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me..