The people in Albia are real friendly. I don't do as many shows as I used to do, but this one, I make a point of [attending].

This is a bit of a retrospective show for him. He has work from earlier periods and all the way up to current work.

Even if I didn't sell anything, it's a real fun show to do. I come every year.

I've got to learn to let people do their job. When I was on the defensive side of the ball, I may have overstepped my bounds. I've got to respect them and let them do what they are supposed to do.

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born in Africa, speak African languages, eat African food, dance in African ways, remember African stories, and will spiritually always be a part of Africa -and we stand up and insist that we, too, are 'African' because Jesse Jackson said so?