"I drove a taxi at night during my last year at BU and then for another 18 months after graduating in order to buy cameras and pay the rent while I tried to figure out for myself how to freelance."

“Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.”

“When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.”

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

“I always feel like music should be a universal language.”

Source : "Soul Star Melanie Fiona Sings Of Love, Pain". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 21, 2010.

“A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.”

“I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.”

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.”

Source : 1949 Letter, 26 Oct.

“What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.”

Source : "The Equal Rights Amendment Falters, and Phyllis Schlafly Is the Velvet Fist Behind the Slowdown". people.com. April 28, 1975.