I went to high school in Frisco, Texas, where a lot of people look the same, dress the same, act the same. People are either like, 'You're not black enough for this' or 'You're not white enough for...

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to...

You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a...

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the...

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is...

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

Texas working families need SNAP to put food on the table, and I can't stand by while wealthy lawmakers on the other side of the aisle try to take meals out of babies' mouths.

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in South Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.

The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas...

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doing theater sophomore year, I had to make a decision which thing I was gonna follow. It was a big...

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'til I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that...

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that...

You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And that's the sound I grew with.

I like to watch 'Paris, Texas,' but I have no desire to see it. I did it.

In Texas, the rangers were established on an ad hoc basis in the 1820s to protect the settlers making inroads into Spanish borderlands. Soon, Mexicans and Mexican Americans replaced Native Americans...

You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in...

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

I want to be the best quarterback at Texas Tech, the best quarterback in the Big 12.

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.

I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.