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“I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.”
Source : "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002. 
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“Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.”
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“I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.”
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“I think it's unhealthy to listen to what people say. My dad used to always say, "Don't believe in your own hype!" I was confused at the time: "Dad, there is no hype on me." But now I understand what he was saying. If someone says, "I think you're amazing" and someone says, "I think you're awful," I would like to have the same reaction to both, to be confident and calm enough to be able to take both of those and not be affected by either.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.”
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“God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.”
Source : Jonathan Edwards (1785). “The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc”, p.381
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“I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.”
