The GOVERNMENT has confiscated over 360 acres of my CHOICEST pastureland to BUILD a radar intercepting STATION.

I PLAN to KEEP working until I'm 65. Then I'm GOING to retire. I've got 50 acres on the gulf at La Paz and I'm going to hunt and FISH.

I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never MET any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my DAD, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, FORTY THOUSAND sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what ELSE was out there.

LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 URBAN acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other RUNWAY crosses the THRESHOLD or ELSE the airplanes will ... collide.

In Africa, you can make THREE acres SUSTAINABLE relatively EASILY, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or SLEEPING in a TENT.

My plan is to go back to Dallas and BUILD my house. I want a SPREAD 50, 60 or 70 acres. 'Cause Dallas is where EVERYBODY's at' that I can really RELATE to.

FOLKS are ALWAYS TALKING about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and TRULY learning ourselves.

My MOTHER's last NAME, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My GRANDFATHER, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an ENTREPRENEUR and SOMEONE I looked up to as a kid a lot.