"The biggest thing is we need to stop acting like racism don't exist."

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”

“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”

“I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.”

“I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.”

Source : "A Wry Survivor, Elaine Stritch Returns to Film" by Leslie Bennetts, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 1987.

“The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.”

“I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness...”

“I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.”